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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) Paradox.
(b) Antithesis.
(c) Anaphora.
(d) Argument by analogy.

2. In the Doctrine section of his sermon, Edwards calls God's laws "immutable" (407). What is he saying is true of God's laws?
(a) They cannot be argued with.
(b) They cannot be changed.
(c) They are wise.
(d) They are just.

3. According to the Application section of Edwards' sermon, how does God look at the unconverted?
(a) With pity.
(b) With disgust.
(c) With infinite love.
(d) With mercy.

4. When, in the Application section of his sermon, Edwards says "That world of misery, that lake of burning brimstone is extended abroad under you," (411), what literary technique is being employed?
(a) Argument by analogy.
(b) Aphorism.
(c) Simile.
(d) Parallelism.

5. The first argument of the Doctrine section is where Edwards first introduces which analogy?
(a) The comparison of God to a farmer.
(b) The comparison of sinners to rocks.
(c) The comparison of sinners to insects hanging by a thread.
(d) The comparison of God to slippery ground.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the Application section of his sermon, what argument does Edwards offer to those who are unconvinced by his sermon?

2. The Biblical passage on which Edwards bases this sermon mentions what people?

3. According to the Doctrine section of Edwards' sermon, what is always standing at the right hand of sinners?

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

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

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