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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book XIII.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is Augustine's new life?
(a) With the woman he marries.
(b) Moving to Britain and starting a monastery.
(c) As a monk of the church.
(d) Going to Africa to preach.
2. How is the covering of Adam and Eve by God a metaphor for something else?
(a) As God clothed Adam and Eve, so does darkness cover light.
(b) As God clothed Adam and Eve, so does the heavens cover the earth.
(c) As God clothed Adam and Eve, the Scriptures stretch over man like a covering.
(d) As God clothed Adam and Eve, so does light cover darkness.
3. Upon what does Augustine wonder?
(a) The lack of even the basic morality of observance of the Ten Commandments in his vicinity.
(b) Whether Jesus really existed.
(c) If his father was truly moral.
(d) If his mother wanted him to become a philosopher.
4. What is one definition of evil?
(a) A decision to not follow one's own heart.
(b) A perversity of the will and a turning against God.
(c) A active pushing away of a child from the light.
(d) The absence of good intentions.
5. Upon what does Augustine reflect as to the nature of life and death?
(a) Life is only a cruel joke and death is the punchline.
(b) God controls all aspects of life and death.
(c) Time passes, and people die, and that is the nature of things.
(d) It is inevitable but only controlled by fate.
Short Answer Questions
1. Beyond what is memory?
2. What does Augustine begin to understand from studying the books in question 104?
3. For what is there always a rationale?
4. What is one of Augustine's greatest faults as a boy and young man?
5. To whom is Augustine married?
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