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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 resent about his studies of Latin and Greek literature?
(a) How it alienates him from his classmates.
(b) How the teachers thought they were so important.
(c) How it took up so much of his youth.
(d) How he was led astray morally by some of the stories.

2. Why does Augustine wish his family had arranged a marriage for him?
(a) So his mother could be taken care of.
(b) So that he wouldn't have to become a monk.
(c) For the prestige that a marriage could have brought.
(d) So that at least his sexual lust would have produced a family.

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

4. With what is Augustine preoccupied?
(a) Learning languages.
(b) Drama both on stage and in real life.
(c) Taking a trip to the Holy Lands.
(d) Becoming holy.

5. What does Augustine feel when he reads of Zeus engaging in fornication and being powerful?
(a) He wants to do these deeds.
(b) Curious as to why a god would do that.
(c) Indifferent.
(d) Repulsed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Instead of learning Christian stories, what does Augustine learn?

2. What sort of philosophy does Augustine have?

3. What do the Manicheans believe about man's soul?

4. What does Augustine fear that the pagan myths that he learned studying literature led to?

5. What notion does Augustine attack?

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