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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. At what age does Augustine decide to become a philosopher?
(a) 33.
(b) 19.
(c) 16.
(d) 25.

Short Answer Questions

1. What interests Augustine more than higher goals or values?

2. What does not signal the end of Augustine's struggles?

3. Who has Augustine already studied much?

4. What is the meaning of the phrase that God creates man in his own image?

5. What type of behavior is not tolerate in Rome?

(see the answer key)

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