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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the Application section of the sermon, when will God have compassion on sinners?
(a) When their souls are crushed.
(b) When they confess their sins.
(c) Never.
(d) When their suffering is too much to bear.

2. What is Edwards' first argument for the truth of his statement of doctrine?
(a) God is strong enough to make the earth tremble.
(b) God's enemies believe they can defeat Him.
(c) God can easily cast sinners into hell.
(d) God is like an earthly prince.

3. What is Edwards' sixth argument for the truth of his statement of doctrine?
(a) Accepting Christ is the only way to avoid hell.
(b) People fool themselves if they think they have the power to keep themselves out of hell.
(c) God is the only thing keeping sinners out of hell.
(d) Sinners would create hell for themselves if God did not restrain them.

4. 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.

5. What is Edwards' eighth argument for the truth of his statement of doctrine?
(a) Sinners are like a rebellious army.
(b) There are many obstacles to avoid if a person wants to stay out of hell.
(c) There is nothing that sinners can do to keep themselves alive if God wants them dead.
(d) Sinners are like defiant children.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the introductory section of his sermon, Edwards speaks of the works that God "wrought" (405). What has God done with these works?

2. In the Application section of his sermon, Edwards makes reference to "earthly potentates" (413). What are "earthly potentates"?

3. What is the third characteristic of the wrath that awaits sinners that Edwards reminds his congregants about in the Application section of his sermon?

4. 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?

5. Edwards mentions, in the Application section of his sermon, God's "omnipotent" power (412). What kind of power does this mean God has?

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