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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the beginning of this book, where is Augustine a student?
(a) School of Philosophy in Athens.
(b) He is out of school.
(c) Lysortium Rhetorium in Rome.
(d) School of Rhetoric in Carthage.

2. How does Augustine possibly cross the boundaries between friendship and sex?
(a) Being friends with a woman and then seducing her under the guise of friendship.
(b) Being sexually involved with a male friend.
(c) He never confuses the two states of being.
(d) Having sex with the wives of male friends.

3. What about Augustine are both of his parents proud?
(a) His kindness.
(b) His appeal to women.
(c) His intellect.
(d) His wit.

4. With what is Augustine preoccupied?
(a) Taking a trip to the Holy Lands.
(b) Becoming holy.
(c) Drama both on stage and in real life.
(d) Learning languages.

5. Why does Augustine read books of rhetoric?
(a) He is required to do so.
(b) He wants to learn to argue like they do.
(c) To make a name for himself.
(d) He is pleasing his father.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is better to seek after than earthly pleasures?

2. Why does Augustine want to move to Rome?

3. Besides thievery, in what is Augustine involved?

4. What do the Manicheans believe about man's soul?

5. What is the Fables of Manes?

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