View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Scriptural passage does Augustine use to remind the reader of "On Christian Doctrine" of the condition that affects holy men?
(a) "Yet the Lord warned Israel and Judah, through all his prophets and every seer, saying, 'Turn from your evil ways and keep my commandments, My statutes according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you through my servants the prophets.'"
(b) "And we preach to you the good news of the promise made to the fathers, that God has fulfilled this promise to our children that He raised up Jesus."
(c) "'I am the Alpha and the Omega,' says the Lord God, 'who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.'"
(d) "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."

2. What type of language from Scriptural characters must be taken literally, according to Augustine?
(a) Any speech or language that describes blessings for the chosen of God.
(b) Any speech or language that defines how a thing is a sign.
(c) Any speech or language that details the authority of God.
(d) Any speech or language that condemns evil and recommends love or kindness.

3. What does Augustine say the student pass through if he/she will be able to understand Scripture?
(a) Stages of spiritual purification and understand the need for God and Christian virtues.
(b) The purging of unclean spiritual occupations that are too common in the pagan cultures.
(c) Rigorous physical and mental challenges to prove to God the seriousness of the desire to learn.
(d) A 40-day period of seclusion and fasting so they can better know the mind of Christ.

4. According to Augustine, how should misunderstood signs become understood?
(a) By committing the misunderstood words or expressions to memory.
(b) By examining the use of the word that appears to be a thing.
(c) By considering how the used thing is accepted by the community.
(d) By examining the context in which things appear as signs.

5. What are the two types of signs in Book Two?
(a) Illuminated or hidden.
(b) Angelic or demonic.
(c) Things or words.
(d) Literal or metaphorical.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Augustine identify as the relationship between all other things and the object of ultimate worship?

2. What does Augustine encourage his critics to remember in the Preface?

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

4. According to Augustine, of the different forms through which the grammar types show themselves, which is, by definition, the most difficult to interpret?

5. What is ironic about the fact that Augustine referred to Tyconius' "Book of Rules" as being useful for the interpretation of Scripture?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 672 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample