Confessions Quizzes

Confessions Quiz 1

1 In what province of Africa was Augustine raised?
Egypt

Numidia

Morocco

Carthage
2 What country controlled Numidia during Augustine's lifetime?
Rome

Egypt

Judea

Libya
3 When Augustine and his friends steal fruit, what type of fruit is it?
Pears

Grapes

Apples

Pomegranates
4 In Book I, what kind of punishment does Augustine pray to be delivered from?
The scorn of his nurses

The pity of his friends

Withdrawal of Monica's affections

Beating at school
5 How did Augustine's family earn money?
Metalworking

Doctors

Trade

Farming
6 In Augustine's family, who was the first Christian?
Augustine

Augustine's baby nurse

Monica

Patrick
7 What book of the Bible does Augustine most often quote in the early Books of Confessions?
Psalms

Acts of the Apostles

Wisdom

Gospel of Mark
8 What does Augustine's father do when he becomes aware that Augustine is sexually mature?
Becomes sad

Gets angry

Leaves home

Gets drunk
9 What was considered the height of intellectual cultivation in Augustine's day?
High moral character

Knowledge of literature and ability in oratory

Knowledge of farming

Knowledge of war
10 What does Augustine consider one of the follies of education in his day?
Lack of education in a specific Christian denomination

Lack of poetry education

Lack of sex education

Lack of moral education
11 What is the name of Augustine's hometown?
Thagaste

Carthage

Rome

Numidia
12 What is Augustine's reaction to jealousy between young siblings?
Wonder and horror

Amusement

Lack of sympathy

Denial
13 What epithet does Augustine use to describe earthly riches?
Vile

Desired

Deceitful

Filthy
14 What was Augustine's big speech in school about?
The suicide of Dido

The lascivious life of Aeneas

The birth of Jesus

Juno in anger and grief
15 What did Augustine think was the problem with his role models in his boyhood?
The distance of time and place between them

The lack of physical education

The moral turpitude of the men put forward as heroes

The fact that he had to learn about them in the Greek language
16 Why was Augustine almost baptized as a small boy?
His mother hoped to save his soul because of his misdeeds

He asked for it playfully and his mother took him seriously

He was gravely ill

His father desired it
17 In what town was Augustine studying when he was called home at the age of 15?
Mandauros

Thagaste

Rome

Milan
18 Why did Augustine have to go home for a year when he was 15?
In order to find him a wife

As a reward for his good grades in school

As punishment for his misdeeds at school

For his parents to save money to send him to Carthage
19 What religious name does Augustine have for his mother?
Angel

Handmaid of God

Servant of the Church

Daughter of God
20 Why does Augustine steal the pears?
He was angry at his father

He was hungry

He was planning to sell them

His friends proposed it and he could not refuse
21 What author from the third century AD did Augustine often quote?
Plotinus

Boethius

Euripedes

The apostle Paul
22 For what are Augustine's parents ambitious?
Augustine to marry as young as possible

Augustine to go into the army

Augustine to gain wealth and honor in the world

Augustine to become a priest
23 Why doesn't Augustine take his mother's advice about sex?
She has led a sinful life

He takes his father's advice instead

He is still a virgin and doesn't need advice

He considers it "womanish advice"
24 Why would Augustine's parents want to send him to Carthage?
They hoped he'd find a wife there

They wanted him away from home

They had business interests there

The best schools were there
25 Why was "a cultured tongue" important for a young man?
It was important to be able to speak many languages

Augustine read his poetry aloud in the street

A great deal of emphasis was placed on rhetoric in Augustine's society

Augustine wanted to go into the theater

what did St. Augustine mean when he wrote''Time tends toward non-existence''?

I think this has something to do with things changing in the lives of human beings but unchanging in God's unchanging design of things: "everything which begins to be and ceases to be begins and ends its existence at that moment when, in the...

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I like my friend cum ex for over 6 years and he knows it all and now he's started showing feelings for me what should I do.

Sorry, I can't help you with this.

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Hurston uses different colored bags as a metaphor to describe how people are. What point is she trying to make here?

In using this metaphor, Hurstan is making the point that we are all the same. It doesn't matter that we are different colors (bags), as we all all have the same things on the inside.... the bags might be different colors, but the items inside the...

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