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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book Three.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What other subject does Augustine addresses in Book Three and Book Four?
(a) Understanding how scripture develops community.
(b) Teaching the doctrines of Scripture.
(c) Understanding how to convey what one learned from Scripture.
(d) Understanding how to learn from Scripture.

2. Of the areas that Augustine emphasizes, what area receives the most intense focus?
(a) The foundations of Israelite history and the influence of prophecy on the Christian Church.
(b) Dietary law and moral law in creating stable, healthy judges, and teachers.
(c) The role of Mosaic Law and Biblical social law in founding Israelite society.
(d) History, culture and languages of Biblical peoples.

3. What does Augustine claim to be the central law of love and the message of Christianity?
(a) That one should find illuminated truth to love God and thy neighbor.
(b) That one thing that is illuminated truth is loving God and then thy neighbor.
(c) That the one illuminated truth is to love thy neighbor who loves God.
(d) That one should love God and love thy neighbor.

4. How does Augustine use the items of his example to illustrate his distinction?
(a) That critics who do not understand show a lack of interest to discover, but those who believe in special gifts use a false faith to rationalize their lack of interest.
(b) That Lucifer sought to discredit Job's faith, but God realized the depth of Job's convictions.
(c) The meal is enjoyed, but the pot is used.
(d) That Adam made the choice of sin, but Cain responded out of the impulse passed to him from Adam's choice.

5. According to Augustine in Book Three, what is a condition that affects holy men and God's commands of them?
(a) They from Scripture became so because God had more direct communication with them.
(b) They can commit great sins.
(c) They have spent time studying God's law and know how to apply his harsh language within the context of His judgment.
(d) They discern the signs given by God that appear evil.

Short Answer Questions

1. What ethical principle of the Bible does Augustine require for students to use as a guide for interpretation of Scripture?

2. What does Augustine use to illustrate a thing to be used?

3. What is the difference between the time that God might deliver what seems to be an evil command in the Old Testament and the current time, according to Augustine?

4. How does Augustine characterize things in Book One?

5. What form do these grammar types take?

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