Episode 99 Quiz

Welcome to the quiz for Episode 99: The Boy Who Stole Pears. See what you can remember about Saint Augustine’s biography, and the first half of the Confessions by clicking “START” below!

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Augustine lived from:

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These North African Christians were staunchly nativist. They were led by a homegrown North African clergy that traced its roots back to the religious persecutions of the early 300s.

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In the episode, we considered how although Augustine ranged through some different belief systems during his younger years, he seems to have always been:

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At the age of 29, Augustine:

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This philosopher was very formative to Augustine’s eventual work as a theologian:

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As a tutor in his twenties, Augustine had to deal with what recurrent problem?

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Augustine corresponded with which famous contemporary on the subject of translations of important works of Greek theology?

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Augustine met this very important person in Milan in 384.

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In a curious passage we looked at in Book 1 of the Confessions, Augustine alleges that nursing babies:

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Augustine became the Bishop of Hippo Regius at the age of 41, in what year?

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Certain churchmen during Augustine’s lifetime were called traditiores, a pejorative label that had to do with what?

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Saint Augustine spent most of his life and career in the northeastern part of which modern-day country?

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When Augustine was sixteen, as he recollects, both of his parents took a high degree of interest in his:

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After converting and returning to North Africa, Augustine:

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Augustine describes theater in the Confessions as:

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