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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book IX.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who joins Augustus in Milan?
(a) His mother.
(b) No one.
(c) His wife.
(d) His brother.

2. What does Alypius finally give up doing?
(a) Following the Manichean sect.
(b) Studying Buddhism.
(c) Sex outside of marriage.
(d) Watching the gladiator and circus games.

3. What motivates Augustine's decision to become a philosopher?
(a) Pride at being smarter than many other of his peers.
(b) The money philosophers make in those days.
(c) The power to change people.
(d) His father's desire for him to do so.

4. What is Ambrose's intent about his preferences at the tombs?
(a) To keep people from getting too joyful.
(b) To keep the wrong kind of people out.
(c) To promote a higher spiritual communion.
(d) To promote restraint and moral behavior.

5. Who is Victorinus?
(a) A man who translates the Platonist texts into modern Greek.
(b) A man who is studying the Greek gods with Augustine.
(c) A man who translates the Platonist texts into Latin.
(d) A man who translates the Platonist texts into Gaelic.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Augustine wish his family had arranged a marriage for him?

2. For what is there always a rationale?

3. Who is Adeodatus?

4. To whom is Augustine married?

5. What is an argument that Augustine learns from his friend Nebridius?

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