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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Augustine teach?
(a) Theology.
(b) Painting and architecture.
(c) Liberal arts and rhetoric.
(d) Algebra and Calculus.

2. What motivates Augustine's decision to become a philosopher?
(a) Pride at being smarter than many other of his peers.
(b) His father's desire for him to do so.
(c) The money philosophers make in those days.
(d) The power to change people.

3. For what is there always a rationale?
(a) Studying esoteric philosophies.
(b) Sin.
(c) Making money.
(d) Going to Rome.

4. What is one of Augustine's future struggles in life?
(a) To have the spirit of truth and faith to inform his and others' good deeds.
(b) To allow those he love to walk their own path.
(c) Whether to marry his childhood sweetheart and enter into sins of the flesh.
(d) If he should take vows with the church.

5. What is a flaw in the book in number 70?
(a) It's thesis is flawed.
(b) It uses poor logic.
(c) It has only one premise and no synthesis.
(d) It ignores the possibility of God's existence.

Short Answer Questions

1. How could Augustine's "journey" be categorized?

2. What does Augustine say about people like his mother, Monica?

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

4. What is Augustine's position in his circle of friends?

5. How does Augustine see Christianity as being deficient?

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