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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Augustine write is incompatible with love?
(a) Coveting things for one's self is incompatible with love.
(b) Using things for non-Scriptural purposes is incompatible with love.
(c) Using things without seeking wisdom is incompatible with love.
(d) Using things without the goal of enjoying them is incompatible with love.

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

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

4. What comes of loving oneself for reasons other than that which Augustine specified?
(a) It will prevent one from enjoying things of God.
(b) It will inhibit the ability to hear God's guiding.
(c) It leads to destruction.
(d) It will result in loss of special gifts.

5. What facts of Scripture does Augustine set as the foundation for understanding it?
(a) All the teachings of Christ.
(b) The context of the miracles so they can understand the purpose of God in delivering them.
(c) Objects, times, places and people referred to in Scripture and the spiritual realm of the people in Scripture.
(d) All Scriptural history starting from creation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Augustine suggest has the ability to know the Truth?

2. What other subject does Augustine addresses in Book Three and Book Four?

3. What does Augustine reason is the consequence to human teaching if learning comes from Divine gifts?

4. What is the difference between the time that God might deliver what seems to be an evil command in the Old Testament and the current time, according to Augustine?

5. Of Tyconius' rules for interpreting Scripture that Augustine examined, which two relate to the subjects that Augustine recommended for study in Book Two?

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