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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Augustine publish his Confessions?
(a) So the public to know what he once was and what he is now after his Christian conversion.
(b) To convert pagans.
(c) To earn some money.
(d) To see if there were others out there like him.

2. Before the Heavens and the Earth existed what does Augustine say did not exist?
(a) Evil.
(b) Love.
(c) Cycles of the sun, the moon, or the planets.
(d) Everything.

3. What sect does Augustine prefer?
(a) Gnostics.
(b) Judain.
(c) Manachean.
(d) Hermite.

4. How can things deeply hidden in memory be recalled?
(a) In a conversation.
(b) Through a conscious effort to remember.
(c) By hypnotism.
(d) In dreams.

5. Why doesn't Ambrose want wine brought to the tombs?
(a) It will ferment more and create bad smells.
(b) It may encourage drunkeness.
(c) It encourages sloth.
(d) He doesn't mind wine at the tombs.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom does Augustine return to Milan?

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

3. For what is there always a rationale?

4. What does Augustine think would happen if there was really a kingdom of light versus a kingdom of darkness?

5. What does Augustine warn will happen if we move away from God's responsibility for the creation?

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