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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Edwards' third argument for the truth of his statement of doctrine?
(a) God's laws are an agreement between God and humans.
(b) The law of God is unchanging.
(c) Sinners have already been sentenced to hell.
(d) God is able to send anyone to hell, regardless of their good works.

2. In the Doctrine section of his sermon, Edwards connects the idea of the "poisoned fruit" to what people?
(a) The residents of Sodom.
(b) The Romans.
(c) The citizens of Connecticut.
(d) The English.

3. In the Doctrine section of his sermon, Edwards notes that the Bible compares the souls of sinners to what?
(a) The fires of hell.
(b) Lions.
(c) A stormy sea.
(d) Devils.

4. 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.

5. Edwards' claim, the the Doctrine section of his sermon, that "Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering" (408), is what type of argument?
(a) Logical deduction.
(b) Argument by analogy.
(c) Appeal to credibility.
(d) Appeal to authority.

6. In the Doctrine section of his sermon, what does Edwards say is a typical way for sinners to think?
(a) They think that they are smarter and trickier than the people who are already in hell.
(b) They think that they are special favorites of God.
(c) They think that God does not exist.
(d) They think that hell does not exist.

7. 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) Onomatopoeia.
(b) Alliteration.
(c) Allusion.
(d) Personification.

8. What is the Doctrine that Edwards derives from his chosen Biblical text?
(a) "There is no want of power in God to cast wicked men into hell at any moment."
(b) "The Use may be of Awakening to unconverted persons in this congregation."
(c) "There is nothing that keeps wicked men, at any one moment, out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God."
(d) "Their foot shall slide in due time. "

9. What is Edwards' seventh argument for the truth of his statement of doctrine?
(a) People should not take comfort in their seeming safety.
(b) God's Providence is for every human soul.
(c) Sinners hate God and His laws.
(d) The devil "owns" the souls of sinners.

10. When Edwards uses the phrase "natural man," what is he referring to?
(a) People who live as God intends them to.
(b) Those who have not been "born again."
(c) Souls already in hell.
(d) Adam.

11. 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) Sinners would create hell for themselves if God did not restrain them.
(d) God is the only thing keeping sinners out of hell.

12. What is Edwards' fifth argument for the truth of his statement of doctrine?
(a) God is angrier with sinners in hell than those on earth.
(b) It does not matter whether sinners deserve to be in hell.
(c) The devil is ready and waiting to take sinners into hell.
(d) Sinners belong to God, not to the devil.

13. Which of the following is a key point that Edwards makes as he argues the seventh point in the Doctrine section of the sermon?
(a) God despises sinners.
(b) The devil is always waiting for humans to make mistakes.
(c) The justice of heaven is applied to all people alike.
(d) God has a huge number of ways of killing a person without warning.

14. What proof does Edwards offer that it is not possible to avoid death once God has decided it will happen?
(a) The story of Lazarus.
(b) Smart people die at the same rate as foolish people.
(c) The story of Jonah.
(d) The examples of several famous people.

15. What is the only thing, according to Edwards, that stops God from sending the wicked to hell?
(a) Christ's love.
(b) His arbitrary will.
(c) The possibility of their repentance.
(d) Their covenant with Him.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In the Doctrine section of his sermon, what point does Edwards make about those who are in hell?

3. In the Doctrine section of his sermon, what does Edwards say the Bible recommends be done with the tree with poisoned fruit?

4. In the Doctrine section of his sermon, Edwards makes reference to "providence" several times. To what is he referring?

5. What is Edwards' second argument for the truth of his statement of doctrine?

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