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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Augustine feel when he reads of Zeus engaging in fornication and being powerful?
(a) Indifferent.
(b) Curious as to why a god would do that.
(c) Repulsed.
(d) He wants to do these deeds.

2. What do the scriptures give us power to do?
(a) To create in the same manner of God.
(b) To treate each other with love.
(c) To break our pride and submit to God.
(d) To understand the mind of God.

3. Why does Augustine read books of rhetoric?
(a) He is pleasing his father.
(b) To make a name for himself.
(c) He is required to do so.
(d) He wants to learn to argue like they do.

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

5. How could Augustine's "journey" be categorized?
(a) From riches to rags.
(b) From rags to riches.
(c) From one of being a sinful youth to becoming a great investigator of the truth and of the nature of God.
(d) From prison to ruling a country.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Augustine resent about his studies of Latin and Greek literature?

3. What does the book Hortensius give Augustine?

4. How does Augustine leave Carthage and his mother?

5. How does God create sky, water and earth?

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