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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Augustine a paradox within himself?
(a) He loves a woman and hates her at the same time.
(b) He sins and yet tells others not to sin.
(c) He wants to do good but does evil instead.
(d) He sees a play and feels both sorrow and pleasure in witnessing the suffering.

2. What sort of philosophy does Augustine have?
(a) Hedonist.
(b) Materialistic.
(c) Spiritual.
(d) Fundamentalist.

3. Upon what does Augustine reflect as to the nature of life and death?
(a) Time passes, and people die, and that is the nature of things.
(b) It is inevitable but only controlled by fate.
(c) Life is only a cruel joke and death is the punchline.
(d) God controls all aspects of life and death.

4. What does Augustine fear that the pagan myths that he learned studying literature led to?
(a) A slovenly attitude towards studying.
(b) His personal corruption.
(c) Being unable to pray for years.
(d) A lack of faith in the true God.

5. What does Augustine struggle to learn in school?
(a) To learn Latin grammar and works by Virgil, such as the Aeneid.
(b) To learn the rules of mathematics.
(c) To get along well with his classmates.
(d) To be humble when he knows more than the teachers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Augustine resent about his studies of Latin and Greek literature?

2. In what is Augustine particularly interested?

3. To whom was the book he lost dedicated?

4. How would you characterize Augustine in this Book?

5. At the beginning of this book, where is Augustine a student?

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