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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the source of teaching Augustine most advocates?
(a) Human teachers in human communities.
(b) God directing the student to understand His role in Scripture.
(c) Christ dispensing special gifts without communities.
(d) Angels guiding human teachers in spiritual communities.

2. What was the third type of criticism that Augustine suggests "On Christian Doctrine" would face?
(a) Criticism from those who cannot grasp his teaching.
(b) Criticism from those who claim that Augustine relied too much on training and not enough on divine guidance.
(c) Criticism that his demands for linguistic studies were too exclusive.
(d) Criticism from those who believe it is not needed.

3. What is Augustine's attitude toward those who have a "special gift" for interpretation from God?
(a) Such "gifts" were exhausted at Pentecost.
(b) God will appoint them to a position of authority.
(c) Augustine considers himself as one.
(d) They are blessed.

4. What basic fact do the critics discussed in the Preface ignore by discounting teaching from Augustine and others?
(a) Trial and error application often give non-Christians the opportunity to "mock God."
(b) Many writers have intensely studied Scriptures and have left their impressions for their use.
(c) The works of writers closer to the time of the authors of Scripture are frequently incomplete, disjointed, and often unverifiable.
(d) The fact that they learned important tools, such as the alphabet, from other humans.

5. What was the first type of criticism Augustine suggests his work "On Christian Doctrine" would face?
(a) Criticism that blending Greek and Christian philosophies was heretical.
(b) Criticism from those who cannot grasp his teaching.
(c) Criticism that his demands for linguistic studies were too exclusive.
(d) Criticism that his moral demands would be restricted to pagan converts.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Augustine's perception of God's dispensation of "special gifts" of interpreting Scripture?

2. 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?

3. What does Augustine claim is the consequence of refusing to learn in a proper setting for Scriptural learning?

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

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

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