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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is something Augustine finds very difficult to follow in real life?
(a) The precepts of the Manicheans.
(b) Monogamy.
(c) The Golden Rule.
(d) It is necessary to follow the word of God, and not even be tied down to one's own flesh.

2. What sect does Augustine prefer?
(a) Gnostics.
(b) Manachean.
(c) Judain.
(d) Hermite.

3. Who is Fautus?
(a) A character in a play by Cicero.
(b) Archbishop of Carthage.
(c) Bishop of the Manicheans.
(d) The Pope's Secretary.

4. What happens to a friend who is ill and unconscious?
(a) He is baptized.
(b) His is exorcised.
(c) He has a miraculous recovery and outlives Augustine.
(d) They use leeches on him.

5. Who is buried near the Tiber River?
(a) Augustine.
(b) Monica.
(c) Justina.
(d) Ambrose.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Augustine resent about his studies of Latin and Greek literature?

2. Who is Simplicianus?

3. Upon what does Augustine reflect as to the nature of life and death?

4. What is one of Augustine's future struggles in life?

5. With whom does Augustine return to Milan?

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