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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. With what prediction does Augustine start "On Christian Doctrine"?
(a) The work will face three kinds of criticism.
(b) God will assure that the Church will become the primary social force in the world.
(c) Christians will gather around a uniform doctrine.
(d) Christians will transform society through piety and rhetorical skill.

3. What is the step that Augustine identifies an individual should take before entering into a proper relationship with God?
(a) An individual must sell all possessions and give the money to the Priest.
(b) An individual's eyes must be purged and God's plan and healing must be followed.
(c) An individual must leave their mother and father and cleave to the Church.
(d) An individual must repent of their sins and be baptized.

4. According to Augustine, how should a student be affected as he/she becomes proficient in interpreting Scripture?
(a) He/she will help to apply the principles of community.
(b) He/she will increase the love that one feels.
(c) He/she will help in developing an understanding of God's motivations.
(d) He/she will help develop a student's teaching skill.

5. What does Augustine consider to be the ultimate thing to be enjoyed?
(a) The Trinity of Christianity.
(b) The things that God places in nature for us to use.
(c) The things that we can develop from our special gifts.
(d) The concept of Christian love as practiced in community.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Augustine characterize the argument that his teaching is not needed because it comes from a human source?

2. What are the two main tools that God uses to teach men what to do, as identified by Augustine?

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

4. What items or situations does Augustine use to illustrate his distinction of things?

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

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