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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the two main tools that God uses to teach men what to do, as identified by Augustine?
(a) Wars and rumors of wars.
(b) Angels and human communities.
(c) Priests and Rabbis
(d) Scripture and nature.

2. According to Augustine, for what reason should one love oneself?
(a) One should only love oneself if they can discern signs from things.
(b) One should only love oneself on account of God.
(c) One should only love oneself if they have seen illuminated truth.
(d) One should only love oneself if God endowed him with understanding for interpretation.

3. What is the primary tool for interpretation for the critics that Augustine primarily focuses on in the Preface?
(a) A "special gift" from God.
(b) Intense study of Scripture.
(c) Trial and error application to the situations for which they need Scriptural guidance.
(d) Investigating commentaries produced closer to the time of the authors of Scriptures.

4. What does Augustine identify as the relationship between all other things and the object of ultimate worship?
(a) Other things are intended to be used as a means of exhibiting Christian love.
(b) Other things are intended to be used as a means of exhibiting Christian love.
(c) All other things are used as a means to enjoy the Trinity.
(d) All other things can be used for God's purposes through the application of special gifts.

5. Augustine endeavors to answer many questions about what subject in Book One?
(a) The Christian conception of love.
(b) The Christian conception of Christ's deity.
(c) The doctrine of God's omnipotence.
(d) The doctrine of Scriptural infallibility.

Short Answer Questions

1. In approaching this distinction, what is Augustine's first focus in Book One?

2. According to Augustine, what are competing influences on an individual's thinking?

3. Augustine wrote that the critics he mainly focuses on in the Preface base their positions on what belief?

4. What is the source of teaching Augustine most advocates?

5. What are the three things Augustine identifies as how God inspires His children?

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