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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 Ambrose's intent about his preferences at the tombs?
(a) To promote restraint and moral behavior.
(b) To promote a higher spiritual communion.
(c) To keep the wrong kind of people out.
(d) To keep people from getting too joyful.

2. What is something Augustine finds very difficult to follow in real life?
(a) Monogamy.
(b) The precepts of the Manicheans.
(c) The Golden Rule.
(d) It is necessary to follow the word of God, and not even be tied down to one's own flesh.

3. What must one avoid in interpreting the scriptures?
(a) Heresy.
(b) Slothful thinking.
(c) Satan's insidious whispers.
(d) Pride.

4. What can the mind remember though it doesn't exist anymore?
(a) The past.
(b) Nothing.
(c) One's past deaths.
(d) Birth.

5. Why does Augustine write the confessions?
(a) By order of the Pope.
(b) In order to show his sincerity to be admitted to a monk order.
(c) For his final project in school.
(d) To find out the sources of his errors earlier in life and also to encourage the faithful in seeking truth and knowledge of God.

Short Answer Questions

1. How can memory make you unhappy?

2. Why do Augustine and his friends steal a pear?

3. Why should Monica think Rome is a good place for Augustine?

4. At what age does Augustine decide to become a philosopher?

5. What differs for each individual and even at different periods of a person's life?

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