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Confessions escape rooms

5 self-checking escape rooms on Confessions by Augustine, one for each section. Every answer comes from the text, so each room checks reading as well as recall, and they work with any edition. For grades 9–12, classical homeschoolers and literature classes.

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Room by room

• Books 1–3: Thagaste to Carthage. Augustine's infancy and schooldays in Thagaste, his tears over Dido and his dislike of Greek, the night he and his friends stole pears, his student years in Carthage, his reading of Cicero's Hortensius, his joining the Manichees, and Monica's dream and tears for him.
• Books 4–6: The Road to Milan. Augustine's teaching years, the death of his friend, his first book, his meeting with Faustus, his voyage to Rome and move to Milan, the preaching of Ambrose, Monica's arrival, and the story of Alypius and the games.
• Books 7–8: The Garden in Milan. Augustine's struggle to think of God and of evil, the books of the Platonists, the stories of Victorinus and of Antony told by Simplicianus and Ponticianus, and the scene in the garden where a child's chant sends him back to his book.
• Book 9: The Window at Ostia. Augustine leaving his teaching, the rest at Cassiciacum, his baptism with Alypius and Adeodatus, the trouble between Ambrose and the empress, the talk at the window at Ostia, Monica's life and death, and his grief.
• Books 10–13: Memory and Time. Why Augustine confesses who he is now, his search through memory, the temptations he still faces, his question about what time is and how we measure it, the formless matter and many readings of Genesis, and the days of creation as a picture of the Church.