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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Upon what does Augustine reflect as to the nature of life and death?
(a) It is inevitable but only controlled by fate.
(b) Time passes, and people die, and that is the nature of things.
(c) Life is only a cruel joke and death is the punchline.
(d) God controls all aspects of life and death.

2. What does the study of the Platonist do for his study of Christian scripture?
(a) Intensifies it.
(b) Agrees in some places and is diametrically different in others.
(c) Refutes it.
(d) Compliments it.

3. From what is a human being, no matter how saintly, never fully free?
(a) The past.
(b) The need for sexual release.
(c) Anger.
(d) Temptation.

4. Instead of having a body, how does Augustine see God?
(a) As having some sort of material substance.
(b) As thought only.
(c) As spirit only.
(d) As vibration.

5. What does scripture not discuss?
(a) The creation of formless matter.
(b) How to be creators also.
(c) Why God creates.
(d) The creation of mankind.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what word in the scriptures is Augustine particularly fascinated?

2. What does Hortensius promote?

3. What happens when men act wickedly?

4. What means the spiritual?

5. What notion does Augustine attack?

(see the answer key)

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