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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Paradox.
(d) Antithesis.

2. 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) Paradox.
(b) Irony.
(c) Pejorative diction.
(d) Restatement.

3. In the Doctrine section of his essay, Edwards claims that something is under the "dominion" of the devil (407). What is the devil's dominion?
(a) Things under his control.
(b) The devil's attention and interest.
(c) Things the devil wishes for.
(d) The devil's agreement with God.

4. In the Application section of his sermon, what does Edwards tell the congregants makes them "heavy as lead" (411)?
(a) Their wickedness.
(b) Their anger.
(c) Their false beliefs.
(d) Their fear.

5. According to the Doctrine section of the sermon, what is always hanging over the heads of sinners?
(a) The hangman's noose.
(b) The sword of Damocles.
(c) The sword of divine justice.
(d) The vigilante's noose.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is a key point that Edwards makes as he argues the seventh point in the Doctrine section of the sermon?

2. Sections of this sermon that make references like "The wrath of God is like great waters" (411) are making reference to what Biblical story?

3. In the Application section of his sermon, Edwards describes something that can be burned "asunder" (413). How will it be burned?

4. What proof does Edwards offer that it is not possible to avoid death once God has decided it will happen?

5. 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?

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