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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What interests Augustine more than higher goals or values?
(a) Intellectual knowledge.
(b) Love and friendship.
(c) Wealth.
(d) Success and fame.

2. What happens to a friend who is ill and unconscious?
(a) They use leeches on him.
(b) He is baptized.
(c) He has a miraculous recovery and outlives Augustine.
(d) His is exorcised.

3. What does Augustine teach?
(a) Theology.
(b) Algebra and Calculus.
(c) Liberal arts and rhetoric.
(d) Painting and architecture.

4. What is one of Augustine's greatest faults as a boy and young man?
(a) Overly diligent.
(b) Too serious.
(c) Pride.
(d) He really had few faults, not too bad.

5. 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 has only one premise and no synthesis.
(d) It uses poor logic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does a Christian priest predict of Augustine?

2. At what age does Augustine decide to become a philosopher?

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

4. Why does he prefer that sect at that time in his life?

5. Upon what does Augustine wonder?

(see the answer key)

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