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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who writes Hortensius?
(a) Plato.
(b) Cicero.
(c) Socrates.
(d) Homer.

4. In what is Augustine particularly interested?
(a) The importance of a person's intentions.
(b) The history of the world.
(c) The ways religion all led to the same place.
(d) How he can become successful in the church.

5. Who is Adeodatus?
(a) Augustine's brother.
(b) Augustine's son.
(c) Augustine's cousin.
(d) Augustine's current rhetoric teacher.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the book Hortensius give Augustine?

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

3. What does Augustine find odd about Hortensius?

4. What do the Manicheans believe when one their "Elect" digest food gifts?

5. What is better to seek after than earthly pleasures?

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