Author Question: Augustine's Confessions was written as A) a response to pagan philosophers' attacks on ... (Read 81 times)

jlmhmf · **on:** Sep 21, 2019

Question 1

Jerome is known for all of the following EXCEPT

A) his mastery of Latin prose.
B) his skills as a linguist.
C) his translations of the Old and New Testaments from Hebrew and Greek into Latin.
D) his final return to pagan heresy and rejection of key Christian doctrines.
E) becoming one of the Latin Fathers of the Church.

Question 2

________________ overpowered British colonists' desire for self-government in the Caribbean.

A) Commercial interests
B) Fear of slave rebellions
C) Fear of military attacks by other imperial powers
D) A general lack of interest in political affairs
E) The benefits of new British legislation for the planter class

Question 3

Augustine's Confessions was written as

A) a response to pagan philosophers' attacks on Christianity.
B) a warning to unbelievers that damnation awaited the unbaptized.
C) an epic poem to rival the works of the greatest pagan poets.
D) an account of his own miraculous personal conversion.
E) a tool to convert the German barbarians.