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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Augustine's father is willing to shoulder large financial burdens?
(a) To give his wife a luxurious lifestyle.
(b) To help Augustine succeed.
(c) To have servants to care for his children.
(d) To have large doweries for his daughters.

2. What notion does Augustine attack?
(a) That women are not equal to men.
(b) That if one studies diligently, one can come to understand how the world works.
(c) That there is no wrong behavior.
(d) The idea of the innocence of childhood.

3. What book does Augustine understand that challenges many people?
(a) The Categories that Govern the Stars.
(b) The Ten Comandments of Manichean Life.
(c) The Categorical Allusion.
(d) The Ten Categories.

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

5. Why do Augustine and his friends steal a pear?
(a) Because there is a beggar who is starving and they give it to him.
(b) Because they are hungry students.
(c) For the pure pleasure of thievery.
(d) Because the owner of the fruit trees had insulted them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one of Augustine's future struggles in life?

2. Why does Augustine get in trouble?

3. Into what has St. Augustine sunk?

4. At one point, what does Augustine believe about evil?

5. What is something Augustine finds very difficult to follow in real life?

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