Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
What approach does McDill use? - CORRECT ANSWER Inductive
T/F the skill that McDill wants to develop by using the structural diagram is this: recognizing
and noting the relationship and function of various ideas in the text. - CORRECT
ANSWER True
Which one is not a factor in developing your powers of observation? - CORRECT
ANSWER expertise in block diagramming
T/F The goal of using the structural diagram and immediate observations is to gain as much
information about the text as you can? - CORRECT ANSWER True
Research questions are not composed of which of the following types of questions? - CORRECT
ANSWER Investigative
T/F Not only does interpretation aim for discovering meaning, but it also aims to go beyond
meaning to significance. - CORRECT ANSWER True
Which one is not part of the Classic method in moving from text to sermon? - CORRECT
ANSWER Sermon Divisions Sentences
T/F McDill states that the preacher should not state the four sentences in his introduction, as that
would seem awkward to the audience. - CORRECT ANSWER False
Which one is not an investigative question? - CORRECT ANSWER Which
, T/F The best way to interpret Scripture is with the best commentaries - CORRECT
ANSWER False
T/F The text idea should be a complete present tense sentence that is made subject/modifier and
removes the historical context from the sentence. - CORRECT ANSWER False
Match: Subject - CORRECT ANSWER central idea
Match: modifier - CORRECT ANSWER defining focus of the idea
Match: text idea - CORRECT ANSWER theological truth of the text in the original setting
Match: sermon idea - CORRECT ANSWER theological idea of the sermon
T/F A Predicate is a grammatical term that expresses the being or action of the subject -
CORRECT ANSWER True
Match: transitional sentence - CORRECT ANSWER answers the question of the
interrogative
Match: propositional sentence - CORRECT ANSWER general theological statement of
what is revealed in the particular narrative
Match: Interrogative - CORRECT ANSWER formed by turning the sermon idea into a
question
Match: key word - CORRECT ANSWER plural abstract noun
Match: application - CORRECT ANSWER a general category of rhetoric