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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the most important step Augustine's students must take to avoid the trap he sees in interpretation?
(a) Students need to devote themselves to studying the subjects Augustine recommended in Book Two.
(b) Students need to differentiate the love for God from the love for things common among the pagans.
(c) Students need to submit themselves to the scrutiny of a wise teacher who can dissuade them from becoming prideful.
(d) Students need to submit themselves to the process of purging their selfish desires.

2. How should a speaker approach subject matter, according to Book Four?
(a) With ambivalence to best respond to the moods of audiences.
(b) With intense seriousness in order to convince the audience of its importance.
(c) In proportion with the gravity of the subject matter.
(d) Lightly because the response of the audience is more important than what the speaker has to say.

3. What does Augustine reason, from the scriptural reference regarding the hazard of learning, that a student must be sure to develop.
(a) Care of how eschatology is applied.
(b) To grow love in one's heart first and foremost.
(c) Diligently apply Scripture properly in every case.
(d) Sensitivity to compare signs to what is being learned from Scripture.

4. What is the second important distinction that Augustine makes in Book One?
(a) The distinction between things and signs.
(b) The distinction between enjoy and use.
(c) The distinction between Christian love and pagan love.
(d) The distinction between encouraging and exhortation.

5. What is the topic of Book Three?
(a) Augustine tackles the problem of understanding signs that are ambiguous.
(b) Augustine differentiates between signs given by God and signs give by angels.
(c) Augustine addresses the controversy of the human filter inhibiting the interpretation of Scripture.
(d) Augustine details the difference of signs given to groups and signs given to individuals.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what prediction does Augustine start "On Christian Doctrine"?

2. What is an important omission that Augustine commits as it applies to moral rules in Scripture?

3. What are the two general confusions that Augustine says come from Christians who do not differentiate themselves from pagans?

4. What is a regret that Augustine voices in the final paragraph of "On Christian Doctrine"?

5. According to Augustine in Book Three, what is the purpose of Scripture in reporting the condition that affects holy men?

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