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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 Augustine find odd about Hortensius?
(a) He is a very religious man.
(b) It does not promote any religion or sect.
(c) It is very strongly biased towards Christianity.
(d) It is written in Hebrew.

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

3. Into what has St. Augustine sunk?
(a) A pit of despair.
(b) A deep depression.
(c) The a life of glory for God.
(d) Sin and lustful behavior.

4. What does Alypius finally give up doing?
(a) Following the Manichean sect.
(b) Sex outside of marriage.
(c) Studying Buddhism.
(d) Watching the gladiator and circus games.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who is Fautus?

4. Why does Augustine get in trouble?

5. With what is Augustine preoccupied?

(see the answer key)

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