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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Augustine relate Truth and God?
(a) God creates things and Truth, but the way humans use things and accept Truth determines whether humans enjoy the experience.
(b) God created truth, but humans misuse things to reject truth.
(c) Truth is based upon an unchanging standard and God is that unchanging standard.
(d) God creates things and things can be used to prove truth.

2. What does Augustine claim is the consequence of refusing to learn in a proper setting for Scriptural learning?
(a) The student does not benefit from an environment that has been modeled by Scriptural standards.
(b) The student does not learn from the experience of a learned devotee of Scripture.
(c) The student does not receive access to the types of references that make learning complete.
(d) The student loses the opportunity to participate in mutual love.

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

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

5. Upon what does Augustine focus most of his efforts in the Preface of "On Christian Doctrine"?
(a) Criticism that his demands for linguistic studies were too exclusive.
(b) Criticism from those who claim that Augustine relied too much on training and not enough on divine guidance.
(c) Criticism from those who believe it is not needed.
(d) Criticism from those who refuse or are unable to apply it.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Augustine conclude are the only things that can be enjoyed?

3. What is the main difference between the system of learning that Augustine advocates and that advocated by the critics he focuses on in the Preface?

4. What are the three things that Augustine claims that interpretations of Scripture should build up?

5. What does Augustine consider as God's typical means of delivering His illumination?

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