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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the two primary reasons that Augustine devotes his time to those questions?
(a) The Christian conception of Christ's deity explains His resurrection and authority over forgiveness.
(b) The two commandments of Christianity to love God and to love one's neighbor.
(c) Because Scriptural infallibility affirms God's role in miracles and prophesy.
(d) God's omnipotence establishes His authority over creation and judgment.

2. How are things separated by Augustine?
(a) Categories of things that are enjoyed and things that are used.
(b) Categories of things that are Biblical and things that are non-Biblical.
(c) Categories of things under God's authority and things that are sinful.
(d) Categories of things that are things and things that are signs.

3. What are subjects that Augustine identifies that 'must be learned'?
(a) The manifestations of creation throughout Scripture, every perspective of eschatology, the application of minor prophets to community.
(b) Measurements of all kinds, alphabets, history, medicine and astronomy.
(c) Dietary laws of Israel, miracles of the Pentateuch, and the sermons of Christ.
(d) The miracles of the Church immediately after the ascension of Christ, the languages of the Roman Empire, and the laws of Israel.

4. What does Augustine suggest a conception of Christian love will serve for the student?
(a) It is integral to applying the principles of community.
(b) It is integral to proper Scriptural interpretation.
(c) It will help the student understand God's motivation for interacting with creation.
(d) It will guide the student to become a teacher.

5. Based on the academic demands that Augustine places on his students, it is clear that Augustine believes what?
(a) That personal discipline and focusing on things outside of the body helps build chastity and humility.
(b) That God is the master of all creation and language and the more you know of each the better you understand what God passed on in Scripture.
(c) That those who sought Augustine as a teacher will need to have conviction and determination to take on the challenges he puts before his students.
(d) That learning as much as possible is the best way to separate the individual from the common population.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what prediction does Augustine start "On Christian Doctrine"?

2. In Augustine's example, how can something used also be enjoyed?

3. What is the doctrine that Augustine claims critics of human teaching defend?

4. Of the areas that Augustine emphasizes, what area receives the most intense focus?

5. What does Augustine reason, from the scriptural reference regarding the hazard of learning, that a student must be sure to develop.

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