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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What book does Augustine understand that challenges many people?
(a) The Ten Comandments of Manichean Life.
(b) The Categorical Allusion.
(c) The Categories that Govern the Stars.
(d) The Ten Categories.

2. What is the name of a book Augustine wrote that he later lost?
(a) "The Beautiful and the Fitting."
(b) "The Fitting Way of Life and Death."
(c) "Fitting One's Soul in the Earthly Physical Life."
(d) "The Beautiful Fits All Souls."

3. What is the Fables of Manes?
(a) A book of fables about the creation of the earth.
(b) A book of the Manicheans.
(c) A book written by Aesop.
(d) A book that tells how to care for horses.

4. 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.

5. Upon what does Augustine wonder?
(a) If his father was truly moral.
(b) The lack of even the basic morality of observance of the Ten Commandments in his vicinity.
(c) Whether Jesus really existed.
(d) If his mother wanted him to become a philosopher.

Short Answer Questions

1. What notion does Augustine attack?

2. What does a Christian priest predict of Augustine?

3. How would you characterize Augustine in this Book?

4. What does Augustine fear that the pagan myths that he learned studying literature led to?

5. Into what has St. Augustine sunk?

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