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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to Augustine in Book Two, in order for the student to become an effective teacher, what two skills must the student master?
(a) Prophecy and signs.
(b) Arts and sciences.
(c) Logic and rhetoric.
(d) Navigation and philosophy.

3. According to Augustine, how can signs become ambiguous?
(a) By containing misunderstood words or expressions.
(b) By being words that appear as things.
(c) By being things that don't appear as signs.
(d) By being used things that are also enjoyed.

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

5. What are the two different ways that God and angels speak in Scripture, as identified in Book Three?
(a) Figuratively and literally.
(b) In spiritual terms and human terms.
(c) With cruelty and kindness.
(d) Of signs and things.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What does Augustine recommend as methods for handling the topic in Book Three?

3. In Book Three, Augustine argues that since holy men from scripture receive evil language from God because of their condition, how should the passages with such language be read?

4. What are the mix of subjects that Augustine emphasizes in his education?

5. By making the demands of understanding Scripture difficult, who was Augustine criticizing?

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