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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book XIII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who accompanies Augustine for the holiday?
(a) Septimus.
(b) His wife.
(c) No one.
(d) His friend Alypius and his mother Monica.

2. What drives Augustine farther away from thoughts of God?
(a) Making money.
(b) Studying the Greek philosophers.
(c) Sexual adventures.
(d) Being a soldier.

3. In what is Augustine particularly interested?
(a) The importance of a person's intentions.
(b) The history of the world.
(c) How he can become successful in the church.
(d) The ways religion all led to the same place.

4. How do men receive reflected wisdom from God?
(a) By meditation.
(b) By the enlightenment of the Holy Spirit.
(c) By thinking about the words in the bible.
(d) By saying a mantra over and over.

5. What does Alypius finally give up doing?
(a) Following the Manichean sect.
(b) Sex outside of marriage.
(c) Watching the gladiator and circus games.
(d) Studying Buddhism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Augustus go for the Vintage holiday?

2. What do the scriptures give us power to do?

3. What does Augustine teach?

4. How does Augustine think of the words heaven and earth?

5. What books bring a change to Augustine's thinking?

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