Confessions Quizzes

Confessions Quiz 1

1 In what province of Africa was Augustine raised?
Numidia

Morocco

Carthage

Egypt
2 What country controlled Numidia during Augustine's lifetime?
Libya

Judea

Egypt

Rome
3 When Augustine and his friends steal fruit, what type of fruit is it?
Apples

Pears

Pomegranates

Grapes
4 In Book I, what kind of punishment does Augustine pray to be delivered from?
Beating at school

The scorn of his nurses

The pity of his friends

Withdrawal of Monica's affections
5 How did Augustine's family earn money?
Doctors

Trade

Metalworking

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

Monica

Patrick

Augustine's baby nurse
7 What book of the Bible does Augustine most often quote in the early Books of Confessions?
Acts of the Apostles

Psalms

Wisdom

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

Leaves home

Gets drunk

Gets angry
9 What was considered the height of intellectual cultivation in Augustine's day?
Knowledge of farming

High moral character

Knowledge of literature and ability in oratory

Knowledge of war
10 What does Augustine consider one of the follies of education in his day?
Lack of sex education

Lack of moral education

Lack of education in a specific Christian denomination

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

Rome

Numidia

Carthage
12 What is Augustine's reaction to jealousy between young siblings?
Amusement

Lack of sympathy

Wonder and horror

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

Vile

Deceitful

Desired
14 What was Augustine's big speech in school about?
The lascivious life of Aeneas

The birth of Jesus

Juno in anger and grief

The suicide of Dido
15 What did Augustine think was the problem with his role models in his boyhood?
The lack of physical education

The fact that he had to learn about them in the Greek language

The moral turpitude of the men put forward as heroes

The distance of time and place between them
16 Why was Augustine almost baptized as a small boy?
He was gravely ill

He asked for it playfully and his mother took him seriously

His mother hoped to save his soul because of his misdeeds

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

Rome

Thagaste

Milan
18 Why did Augustine have to go home for a year when he was 15?
As punishment for his misdeeds at school

For his parents to save money to send him to Carthage

In order to find him a wife

As a reward for his good grades in school
19 What religious name does Augustine have for his mother?
Daughter of God

Handmaid of God

Angel

Servant of the Church
20 Why does Augustine steal the pears?
He was hungry

He was planning to sell them

His friends proposed it and he could not refuse

He was angry at his father
21 What author from the third century AD did Augustine often quote?
The apostle Paul

Plotinus

Euripedes

Boethius
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?
He is still a virgin and doesn't need advice

He takes his father's advice instead

He considers it "womanish advice"

She has led a sinful life
24 Why would Augustine's parents want to send him to Carthage?
They had business interests there

They hoped he'd find a wife there

They wanted him away from home

The best schools were there
25 Why was "a cultured tongue" important for a young man?
A great deal of emphasis was placed on rhetoric in Augustine's society

Augustine wanted to go into the theater

Augustine read his poetry aloud in the street

It was important to be able to speak many languages

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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by Saint Augustine

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