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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Augustine identify as a necessary subject that a student must learn to understand Scripture?
(a) The relevant languages and make all the translations he can find.
(b) The working order of the Catholic Church to understand where to go for sound reference and guidance.
(c) The Apocrypha so the hidden meaning of Scriptural signs can be illuminated.
(d) Records of the Council of Trent to know the points of sound doctrine.

2. What does Book Three state is the purpose of God or angels using condemning terms?
(a) To announce judgment.
(b) In relation to destroying evil or lust.
(c) To identify human nature.
(d) To announce displeasure with human conduct.

3. Why does Augustine claim that Christian students fall into the trap that prevents them from separating themselves from pagans?
(a) They are too eager to misapply signs to inappropriate events and situations.
(b) They consider their ability to absorb knowledge as a special gift that makes them closer to God.
(c) They read Scriptural passages according to their own cultural and historical biases.
(d) They do not have the discipline to understand that seclusion is intended for purging human weakness and not for self-absorption.

4. How does Augustine say the speaker is going to know if their interpretation of Scripture is correct?
(a) By applying the principles of investigation and study that Augustine details in his first three books.
(b) Through the application of their "special gifts."
(c) By studying the sermons of other Christian speakers.
(d) By being sensitive to the leading of the Holy Spirit.

5. What are the three things that Augustine claims that interpretations of Scripture should build up?
(a) Special gifts, community, and signs.
(b) Hope, signs, and the inner eye.
(c) Faith, hope and love.
(d) The inner eye, love, and illuminated truth.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What comes of loving oneself for reasons other than that which Augustine specified?

3. What are the two different ways that God and angels speak in Scripture, as identified in Book Three?

4. What does Augustine consider to be the ultimate thing to be enjoyed?

5. What are the primary possessions of the student of Scripture, according to Augustine in Book Two?

(see the answer key)

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