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

3. Why do Augustine and his friends steal a pear?
(a) Because the owner of the fruit trees had insulted them.
(b) For the pure pleasure of thievery.
(c) Because they are hungry students.
(d) Because there is a beggar who is starving and they give it to him.

4. What is a flaw in the book in number 70?
(a) It uses poor logic.
(b) It ignores the possibility of God's existence.
(c) It has only one premise and no synthesis.
(d) It's thesis is flawed.

5. What do the Manicheans believe about man's soul?
(a) Every man has a soul of light, good, and a soul of darkness.
(b) Man does not have a soul.
(c) Women have souls but men do not.
(d) Men have souls but women do not.

6. What does Augustine fabricate in order to be accepted by his peers?
(a) Stories of his sisters' beauty.
(b) Stories of the wealth of his family.
(c) Stories about meeting the Emperor.
(d) Stories of sexual conquests.

7. What is Augustine thinking of doing?
(a) Going on a mission to Britain.
(b) Marrying.
(c) Moving back to Carthage.
(d) Taking vows as a monk.

8. Who offers Augustine explanations of the Manichean philosophy which does not satisfy Augustine?
(a) Faustus.
(b) Marlette.
(c) Remeer.
(d) Cicero.

9. How does Augustine leave Carthage and his mother?
(a) With his mother's blessings.
(b) By sneaking away while his mother is in Athens.
(c) He pretends to just be seeing a friend off at the docks but gets on a ship, too.
(d) With her disowning him.

10. How does Augustine see Christianity as being deficient?
(a) It is too simplistic.
(b) It doesn't promote change through violence or any means possible.
(c) It is too improbable.
(d) It fails to impress Augustine with its superior viewpoint to the many other religions and sects available.

11. For what is there always a rationale?
(a) Studying esoteric philosophies.
(b) Sin.
(c) Going to Rome.
(d) Making money.

12. What does Augustine say about people like his mother, Monica?
(a) That she had very little influence on him.
(b) That she led him astray through her wantoness.
(c) That she was the only one whose intentions were always best for Augustine.
(d) That though righteous, she did not always have the best of intentions.

13. For what is the stealing of the pear a metaphor?
(a) The desire for goodness without being good.
(b) The good of the earth tainted by Satan.
(c) Those who grab the fruits of goodness without having the spirit of righteousness.
(d) The hopes for fruit without labor.

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

15. What sort of philosophy does Augustine have?
(a) Fundamentalist.
(b) Hedonist.
(c) Spiritual.
(d) Materialistic.