Confessions Quiz

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

What story does Augustine learn from a man named Firminus? (from Book VII)

Of a time when astrology really was accurate.

About the son of a rich man and the son of a slave are born at almost the exact same time, and under the same stars.

Of how Jesus used the stars to predict events.

Of the fact that twins always have the same fates.

2.

What was given light and made to exist? (from Book XIII)

Darkness.

Thought.

Man.

Matter.

3.

How does God create sky, water and earth? (from Book XI)

From molecules of form that he rearranges.

From the formless part of self.

From thought.

From formless matter.

4.

By what does Augustine feel overwhelmed? (from Book IV)

By his inability to corrupt his friends faith.

By the power of sin and death.

By his friend's miraculous recovery.

By the task set before him by God.

5.

What means the spiritual? (from Book XIII)

Light.

God.

Scriptures.

Prayer.

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