Episode 100 Quiz
Welcome to the quiz for Episode 100: Late Have I Loved You. See what you remember about the second half of Saint Augustine’s Confessions by clicking “START” below!
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In contradiction to popular pagan ideology of Late Antiquity, Augustine believed that the world:
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Augustine, in Book 13 of the Confessions, interprets Genesis’ “Be fruitful and multiply” as a directive to:
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Augustine eventually developed a significant disagreement with the Neoplatonist philosopher Plotinus. He disagreed with Plotinus’ notion that:
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Augustine describes the indecision that led up to his conversion in a very specific way. How does he describe his indecision?
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The first place Augustine went following his conversion was:
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Statistical studies of surviving manuscripts during the Middle Ages demonstrates that during the Medieval period Augustine’s Confessions:
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Augustine hears a child’s voice telling him to “Pick up and read, pick up and read” at a crucial moment in the Confessions. This is the moment when:
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We looked closely at some of Augustine’s interpretive work in Book 13 of the Confessions. In this book, he reads the first sentence of Genesis very carefully, and in this sentence, he identifies:
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The main reason Augustine hesitates in converting to Christianity is:
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Augustine became a bishop in Hippo Regius during which decade?
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What did Augustine think about the importance of the cultural history behind the Bible?
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This influential bishop was a central figure in Augustine’s conversion.
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What happens at the Roman port town of Ostia midway through the Confessions? (Hint: This is the last major autobiographical event Augustine records prior to the purely philosophical portions of the Confessions.)
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The famous conversion scene in Augustine’s Confessions takes place in:
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In Book 11, Augustine seeks to answer the question of what the Christian God was doing before the moment of creation. Augustine’s answer is that:
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