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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, what will God do when sinners beg for mercy?
(a) Test their sincerity.
(b) Laugh at them.
(c) Have pity.
(d) Grow angrier.

2. In the introduction of his sermon, what is the fourth thing Edwards says is true of the Israelites' destruction?
(a) It will happen during the Second Coming.
(b) The timing depends on the depth of their sin.
(c) It will happen when they stray too far toward the pit.
(d) The timing depends on God's will.

3. When, in the Application section of his sermon, Edwards tells the congregants that "you would be like the chaff of the summer threshing floor," (411), what is he referring to?
(a) He is referring to the Biblical text on which the sermon is based.
(b) He is referring back to an earlier section of his own sermon.
(c) He is referring to a sermon that was given by George Whitefield.
(d) He is referring to a well-known poem of the Great Awakening.

4. What is the first 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 only made less, not prevented, by good works.
(b) God rarely shows mercy to sinners.
(c) It is the wrath of an infinite God.
(d) It is the wrath of righteousness.

5. In the Doctrine section of his sermon, when Edwards says "as the heart is now a sink of sin, so, if sin was not restrained," (408), this is an example of which literary technique?
(a) Alliteration.
(b) Allusion.
(c) Personification.
(d) Onomatopoeia.

Short Answer Questions

1. When, in the Application section of his sermon, Edwards says of God "he'll crush out your blood, and make it fly, and it shall be sprinkled on his garments," (415), what literary technique does he employ?

2. When, in the Application section of his sermon, Edwards says that sinners can expect no "mitigation" (416), what is he saying they should not expect?

3. 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?

4. When, in the Application section of his sermon, Edwards tells congregants that "There are the black clouds of God's wrath now hanging directly over your heads, full of the dreadful storm," (411), what literary technique is he employing?

5. 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?

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