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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3: Application.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the introduction of his sermon, what is the first thing Edwards says is true of the Israelites' destruction?
(a) It is unjust.
(b) It is inevitable.
(c) It is preventable.
(d) It is uncertain.

2. What is the third characteristic of the wrath that awaits sinners that Edwards reminds his congregants about in the Application section of his sermon?
(a) God's wrath is righteous.
(b) It is inescapable.
(c) The extremity of God's wrath will demonstrate his power.
(d) Divine justice requires God's anger.

3. When Edwards says, in the Application section of his sermon, that unconverted congregants "would immediately sink and swiftly descend and plunge into the bottomless gulf," (411), what literary technique is he employing?
(a) Pejorative diction.
(b) Restatement.
(c) Paradox.
(d) Irony.

4. In the passage "the fiery floods of the fierceness and wrath of God would rush forth with inconceivable fury," (412) what literary technique is employed?
(a) Repetition.
(b) Alliteration.
(c) Paradox.
(d) Restatement.

5. When, in the Application section of his sermon, Edwards warns sinners that there is "nothing to lay hold of to save yourself, nothing to keep off the flames of wrath, nothing of your own, nothing that you ever have done, nothing that you can do, to induce God to spare you one moment" (413), he is using which literary technique?
(a) Anaphora.
(b) Argument by analogy.
(c) Antithesis.
(d) Paradox.

Short Answer Questions

1. When, in the Application section of his sermon, Edwards says "There is the dreadful pit of the glowing flames of the wrath of God; there is hell's wide gaping mouth open," (411), what literary technique is being employed?

2. In the Doctrine section of his sermon, Edwards makes reference to the "manifold" experience of the world. What kind of experience is this?

3. According to Edwards, God's enemies are "chaff before the whirlwind" (406). What is he comparing them to?

4. In the Doctrine section of his sermon, Edwards connects the idea of the "poisoned fruit" to what people?

5. What is Deuteronomy?

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