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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who accompanies Augustine for the holiday?
(a) His wife.
(b) No one.
(c) Septimus.
(d) His friend Alypius and his mother Monica.

2. Who writes Hortensius?
(a) Cicero.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Homer.
(d) Plato.

3. As time goes on, what happens to the future?
(a) The future passes the point of the present, and is consumed, becoming the past.
(b) It recedes into non-existence.
(c) It moves farther into the future.
(d) It was never real so nothing happens to it.

4. Who is Fautus?
(a) A character in a play by Cicero.
(b) Bishop of the Manicheans.
(c) The Pope's Secretary.
(d) Archbishop of Carthage.

5. Why is Augustine unable to believe in Jesus?
(a) He thinks Jesus wasn't a real person.
(b) He thinks it is impossible for God to be also human.
(c) He thinks Jesus is too good to be true.
(d) He thinks Christ would be defiled by being born of the Virgin Mary.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the Manichean doctrine, what does light and darkness represent?

2. What sect does Augustine prefer?

3. How does Augustine define formlessness?

4. What happens to a friend who is ill and unconscious?

5. What does Augustine say about people like his mother, Monica?

(see the answer key)

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