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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is the covering of Adam and Eve by God a metaphor for something else?
(a) As God clothed Adam and Eve, so does the heavens cover the earth.
(b) As God clothed Adam and Eve, so does darkness cover light.
(c) As God clothed Adam and Eve, so does light cover darkness.
(d) As God clothed Adam and Eve, the Scriptures stretch over man like a covering.

2. Who does Augustine meet in Milan?
(a) Friar Tuck.
(b) Archbishop Marlowe.
(c) Bishop John Paul.
(d) Bishop Ambrose.

3. What does Augustine resent about his studies of Latin and Greek literature?
(a) How it took up so much of his youth.
(b) How the teachers thought they were so important.
(c) How it alienates him from his classmates.
(d) How he was led astray morally by some of the stories.

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

5. How can memory make you unhappy?
(a) Remembering the slights of others and feeling resentful.
(b) Thinking about what might have been.
(c) Not letting go of the negative emotion with a memory.
(d) By remembering something in the past which disgusts you now.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Augustine teach?

2. Why does Augustine publish his Confessions?

3. What does Augustine say is another way to look at the Trinity?

4. Why is Augustine unable to believe in Jesus?

5. What does scripture not discuss?

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