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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Into what can the devil make himself?
(a) An average human.
(b) A reasonable temptation.
(c) A minor deity.
(d) An angel of light (Lucifer) who is evil.

2. To whom is Augustine married?
(a) He is not married as he has taken a vow of celibacy.
(b) He is not married by in a monogamous relationship.
(c) A woman of high birth who is poor.
(d) A woman who is pregnant by him.

3. What does scripture not discuss?
(a) Why God creates.
(b) How to be creators also.
(c) The creation of mankind.
(d) The creation of formless matter.

4. What drives Augustine farther away from thoughts of God?
(a) Making money.
(b) Sexual adventures.
(c) Studying the Greek philosophers.
(d) Being a soldier.

5. What question does Augustine ask?
(a) Why have I been placed on this earth.
(b) How can I know I am going to heaven?
(c) How does Jesus, a dead person, know me.
(d) What does it mean to love God?

Short Answer Questions

1. What is non-existent except when it is the present?

2. Why does Augustine believe it is not the motion of the heavenly bodies that determines the length of a day?

3. What does the mind retain in memory?

4. In what is Augustine particularly interested?

5. To what does Augustine compare the recitation of a psalm?

(see the answer key)

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