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Article 23: The Senses of Scripture

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 9mins

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1.

What are the goals of biblical study?

a)

Help us better understand Sacred Scripture

b)

Understand the people around us

c)

Discover meaning and truth in Sacred Scripture

d)

Making friends

2.

Which of the following are NOT ways Aquinas taught us to study Sacred Scripture?

a)

Psychological

b)

Literal

c)

Emotional

d)

Physical

e)

Spiritual

3.

How do we determine the literal sense of Scripture?

a)

We take every word written literally

b)

We find the obvious meaning of the text

c)

We disregard any hidden meanings

4.

Who laid the foundation for modern biblical interpretation?

a)

St. Augustine

b)

God

c)

St. Thomas Aquinas

d)

Greek goddess Athena

e)

The Pope

5.

The literal sense is considered the what in regards to other senses of Scripture?

a)

Opposite

b)

Epitome

c)

Exception

d)

Most reliable

e)

Foundation

6.

What are the 3 subcategories of the spiritual sense?

a)

Literal

b)

Moral

c)

Interpretational

d)

Allegorical

e)

Anagorgical

7.

What sense looks at how the people, events and things in the literal sense point to the mystery of Christ.

a)

Moral

b)

Allegorical

c)

Anagogical

8.

What sense helps us understand how a particular passage instructs us to live in right relationship with God, neighbor, self, and the earth?

a)

Moral

b)

Allegorical

c)

Anagogical

9.

What sense considers realities and events in terms of their eternal significance?

a)

Moral

b)

Allegorical

c)

Anagogical

10.

What sense is this: Through Moses, God helped save the Israelites by parting the Red Sea.

a)

Literal Sense

b)

Allegorical Sense

c)

Moral Sense

d)

Anagogical Sense

e)

Spiritual Sense

11.

What sense is this: Just as the Israelites were freed from slavery by God through Moses, we are freed from sin, evil, and death by God through Jesus Christ, the New Moses.

a)

Anagogical Sense

b)

Literal Sense

c)

Moral Sense

d)

Allegorical Sense

e)

Spiritual Sense

12.

What sense is this: Jesus Christ destroyed original sin in the waters of Baptism just like God destroyed the Pharoh’s power (his troops) by the waters of the Red Sea.

a)

Spiritual Sense

b)

Moral Sense

c)

Alagogical Sense

d)

Allegorical Sense

e)

Literal Sense

13.

What sense is this: We can enter our promised land of Heaven through the waters of Baptism just like the Israelites entered the promised land by passing through the waters of the Red Sea.

a)

Spiritual Sense

b)

Literal Sense

c)

Anagogical Sense

d)

Allegorical Sense

e)

Moral Sense

14.

What sense is this: Just as God helped save the Israelites and delivered them to the promised land, Jesus Christ saved and delivered us from the evil of the world through Baptism.

a)

Literal Sense

b)

Anagogical Sense

c)

Moral Sense

d)

Allegorical Sense

e)

Spiritual Sense

15.

Allegory speaks

a)

of faith

b)

how to act

c)

of deeds

d)

our destiny

16.

Moral speaks

a)

our destiny

b)

of faith

c)

how to act

d)

of deeds

17.

Anagogical speaks

a)

our destiny

b)

how to act

c)

of faith

d)

of deeds

18.

Literal sense speaks

a)

of faith

b)

our destiny

c)

how to act

d)

of deeds