Confessions Quizzes

Confessions Quiz 1

By Elizabeth Hayes Smith · Edited by Jordan Berkow · Last reviewed April 29, 2007

1 In what province of Africa was Augustine raised?

Numidia

Morocco

Carthage

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

Judea

Libya

Egypt

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

Pears

Apples

Grapes

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

The scorn of his nurses

Withdrawal of Monica's affections

The pity of his friends

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

Metalworking

Trade

Farming

Doctors
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?

Wisdom

Gospel of Mark

Psalms

Acts of the Apostles
8 What does Augustine's father do when he becomes aware that Augustine is sexually mature?

Gets drunk

Leaves home

Becomes sad

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

Knowledge of farming

Knowledge of literature and ability in oratory

High moral character

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 sex education

Lack of moral education

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

Thagaste

Rome

Carthage

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

Denial

Wonder and horror

Lack of sympathy

Amusement
13 What epithet does Augustine use to describe earthly riches?

Desired

Deceitful

Filthy

Vile
14 What was Augustine's big speech in school about?

The suicide of Dido

Juno in anger and grief

The birth of Jesus

The lascivious life of Aeneas
15 What did Augustine think was the problem with his role models in his boyhood?

The distance of time and place between them

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

The lack of physical education

The moral turpitude of the men put forward as heroes
16 Why was Augustine almost baptized as a small boy?

He was gravely ill

His father desired it

His mother hoped to save his soul because of his misdeeds

He asked for it playfully and his mother took him seriously
17 In what town was Augustine studying when he was called home at the age of 15?

Thagaste

Milan

Rome

Mandauros
18 Why did Augustine have to go home for a year when he was 15?

As a reward for his good grades in school

As punishment for his misdeeds at school

In order to find him a wife

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

Handmaid of God

Daughter of God

Servant of the Church

Angel
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?

The apostle Paul

Plotinus

Euripedes

Boethius
22 For what are Augustine's parents ambitious?

Augustine to gain wealth and honor in the world

Augustine to become a priest

Augustine to marry as young as possible

Augustine to go into the army
23 Why doesn't Augustine take his mother's advice about sex?

He takes his father's advice instead

He considers it "womanish advice"

She has led a sinful life

He is still a virgin and doesn't need advice
24 Why would Augustine's parents want to send him to Carthage?

The best schools were there

They wanted him away from home

They had business interests there

They hoped he'd find a wife there
25 Why was "a cultured tongue" important for a young man?

Augustine read his poetry aloud in the street

Augustine wanted to go into the theater

It was important to be able to speak many languages

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

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