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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 another name for the wisdom of God?
(a) Creation.
(b) The Holy Spirit.
(c) There is not name for God's wisdom; it is ineffable.
(d) Being.

2. With what word in the scriptures is Augustine particularly fascinated?
(a) Formlessness.
(b) Time.
(c) Heaven.
(d) Creation.

3. Where does Augustine go to study?
(a) Rome.
(b) The Vatican.
(c) Carthage.
(d) Florence.

4. What do we remember when we are sad?
(a) The past.
(b) God.
(c) Love.
(d) Happiness.

5. What is Augustine's vision of the Trinity?
(a) God is the father, or the creator, the Son is wisdom, and the Holy Spirit is what lights up the creation.
(b) The three states of matter.
(c) The three choices of life.
(d) The three aspects of creation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Before the Heavens and the Earth existed what does Augustine say did not exist?

2. To what three things does Augustine compare the Trinity?

3. At the beginning of this book, where is Augustine a student?

4. As time goes on, what happens to the future?

5. What does the faithful begin doing under the guidance of Ambrose?

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