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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is better to seek after than earthly pleasures?
(a) Heaven through being an ascetic.
(b) Marriage and propagating as God commanded.
(c) To be kind to all.
(d) Joyful living with God.

3. How does Augustine change his view of evil?
(a) He sees that evil only exists as a concept and is not real.
(b) He sees there is not such thing as evil.
(c) He believes evil is created by God and can be annihilated by God.
(d) He sees that evil is caused by corruption and lack of good.

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

5. What does the book Hortensius give Augustine?
(a) Bad dreams.
(b) A desire to become a famous orator.
(c) Knowledge to learn Greek.
(d) A love for philosophy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Augustine possibly cross the boundaries between friendship and sex?

3. Who is Simplicianus?

4. What drives Augustine farther away from thoughts of God?

5. How long as Augustine been a member of the Manichean sect when he is 29?

(see the answer key)

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