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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Augustine, what are competing influences on an individual's thinking?
(a) The devil and angels.
(b) Priests and Rabbis.
(c) Husbands and wives.
(d) Laborers and land owners.

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?
(a) Augustine's system requires study and application of rules whereas the critics believe they can understand through special gifts.
(b) Augustine's system of learning requires study in Greek philosophy whereas the critics require researching copies of manuscripts.
(c) Augustine's system requires great expense in accessing the necessary documents of learning whereas the critics allow for the interpretation of the spirit through tongues.
(d) Augustine's system requires finding a qualified Priest to hand down the official teaching of the Church whereas the critics allow free interpretation.

3. Based on the academic demands that Augustine places on his students, it is clear that Augustine believes what?
(a) That those who sought Augustine as a teacher will need to have conviction and determination to take on the challenges he puts before his students.
(b) That God is the master of all creation and language and the more you know of each the better you understand what God passed on in Scripture.
(c) That learning as much as possible is the best way to separate the individual from the common population.
(d) That personal discipline and focusing on things outside of the body helps build chastity and humility.

4. How are things separated by Augustine?
(a) Categories of things that are Biblical and things that are non-Biblical.
(b) Categories of things under God's authority and things that are sinful.
(c) Categories of things that are things and things that are signs.
(d) Categories of things that are enjoyed and things that are used.

5. What does Augustine identify as the relationship between all other things and the object of ultimate worship?
(a) All other things are used as a means to enjoy the Trinity.
(b) Other things are intended to be used as a means of exhibiting Christian love.
(c) All other things can be used for God's purposes through the application of special gifts.
(d) Other things are intended to be used as a means of exhibiting Christian love.

Short Answer Questions

1. Upon what does Augustine focus most of his efforts in the Preface of "On Christian Doctrine"?

2. What is the most important step Augustine's students must take to avoid the trap he sees in interpretation?

3. What Scriptural passage does Augustine use to remind the reader of "On Christian Doctrine" of the condition that affects holy men?

4. Augustine endeavors to answer many questions about what subject in Book One?

5. What is the logical inconsistency of the critics that Augustine confronts in the Preface?

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