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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. If two people both believe in the word of God, what can be fruitful?
(a) Compromise on interpretation.
(b) Debate about interpretations.
(c) Agreement.
(d) Witnessing to a third.

2. What does Augustine say about people like his mother, Monica?
(a) That she was the only one whose intentions were always best for Augustine.
(b) That she led him astray through her wantoness.
(c) That she had very little influence on him.
(d) That though righteous, she did not always have the best of intentions.

3. Who is Simplicianus?
(a) Augustine's mother's older brother.
(b) Augustine's new born son.
(c) One of the teachers in Carthage whom Augustine despises.
(d) An old man and a teacher of Ambrose.

4. What interests Augustine more than higher goals or values?
(a) Love and friendship.
(b) Intellectual knowledge.
(c) Wealth.
(d) Success and fame.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does a Christian priest predict of Augustine?

2. What indicates that Augustine is not quite ready to fully embrace the way of being a priest of Christianity?

3. What makes it easy for Augustine to quit his job?

4. What differs for each individual and even at different periods of a person's life?

5. What does Ambrose say to bring to the tombs of the saints?

(see the answer key)

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