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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Augustine's native language?
(a) Greek.
(b) German.
(c) Gaelic.
(d) Latin.

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

3. 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.

4. What does Augustine say about people like his mother, Monica?
(a) That though righteous, she did not always have the best of intentions.
(b) That she led him astray through her wantoness.
(c) That she was the only one whose intentions were always best for Augustine.
(d) That she had very little influence on him.

5. To whom was the book he lost dedicated?
(a) Hiereus.
(b) Monica, his mother.
(c) His wife.
(d) Disenyum.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of Augustine's friends laughed at predicting the future through stargazing?

2. Upon what does Augustine wonder?

3. What does Augustine call his living arrangement?

4. What book does Augustine understand that challenges many people?

5. What happens to a friend who is ill and unconscious?

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