1. What is the first important distinction that Augustine makes in Book One?
(a) The distinction between learning and teaching.
(b) The distinction between the Christian conception of love and the pagan conception of love.
(c) The distinction between discovering what Scripture teaches and communicating it.
(d) The distinction between "enjoy" and "use."

2. What are the three things Augustine identifies as how God inspires His children?
(a) Signs, things, and enjoyment.
(b) The promise of His return, His illuminated truths, and signs.
(c) His illuminated truths, special gifts, and signs.
(d) His death, resurrection, and promise of return.

3. What does Augustine use to illustrate a thing to be used?
(a) Community that develops among friends during a delicious meal.
(b) A friend who has the special gift to cook a delicious meal.
(c) A pot for cooking a delicious meal.
(d) A delicious meal used to to bring friends together.

4. What doctrine does Augustine introduce to explain how Truth can be seen?
(a) The doctrine of "special gifts of seeing" that God grants when individuals seek eternal truths illuminated by God.
(b) The doctrine of "things and signs" helps an individual know which things and signs illuminate eternal truths.
(c) The doctrine of "community vision" is achieved when individuals join their desires to seek eternal truths illuminated by God.
(d) The doctrine of the "inner eye" that can see eternal truths even when tainted by sin because it is illuminated by God.

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