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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Victorinus?
(a) A man who translates the Platonist texts into modern Greek.
(b) A man who translates the Platonist texts into Latin.
(c) A man who translates the Platonist texts into Gaelic.
(d) A man who is studying the Greek gods with Augustine.

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

3. What does not signal the end of Augustine's struggles?
(a) His Christian faith.
(b) Giving up his materialistic desires.
(c) His acceptance of the existence of both good and evil.
(d) His study of the Old Testament.

4. Who is Simplicianus?
(a) Augustine's mother's older brother.
(b) One of the teachers in Carthage whom Augustine despises.
(c) Augustine's new born son.
(d) An old man and a teacher of Ambrose.

5. What does Ambrose say to bring to the tombs of the saints?
(a) Animal sacrifices.
(b) Food.
(c) Prayers.
(d) Money.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who has Augustine already studied much?

2. How does Augustine view the holy men of the Bible?

3. What does a Christian priest predict of Augustine?

4. Who does Augustine arrange to marry?

5. Why does Augustine wish his family had arranged a marriage for him?

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