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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What makes it easy for Augustine to quit his job?
(a) He feels God paving the way.
(b) He has been suffering from overwork.
(c) The dean is not happy with him.
(d) He has not been very popular with the students.

2. With what is Augustine preoccupied?
(a) Becoming holy.
(b) Taking a trip to the Holy Lands.
(c) Learning languages.
(d) Drama both on stage and in real life.

3. On what does Augustine eventually blame his actions?
(a) His parents pushing his to succeed.
(b) His own violition.
(c) God's disinterest in him.
(d) An evil force.

4. What does Augustine say is wrong about the existence of God in time?
(a) That time is a creation of God.
(b) That God even exists in time.
(c) That time is real to even compare it to God's existence.
(d) It is wrong to say that time could have existed before God's creation of the heaven and the earth.

5. What books bring a change to Augustine's thinking?
(a) Grendal and the Four Horsemen.
(b) The Illiad and Odyssey.
(c) Books of the Platonists.
(d) Books of the disciples of Socrates.

Short Answer Questions

1. Instead of having a body, how does Augustine see God?

2. What story does Augustine learn from a man named Firminus?

3. What is better to seek after than earthly pleasures?

4. How long as Augustine been a member of the Manichean sect when he is 29?

5. Upon whom does Augustine lay a task?

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