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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 refuse?
(a) His best friend's position at the college.
(b) A woman's offer of marriage.
(c) Animal sacrifice for help.
(d) His mother's suggestion that he leave Carthage.

2. What drives Augustine farther away from thoughts of God?
(a) Sexual adventures.
(b) Being a soldier.
(c) Making money.
(d) Studying the Greek philosophers.

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

4. What is Augustine's position in his circle of friends?
(a) A follower.
(b) He is a loner.
(c) Someone on the fringes.
(d) A leader.

5. Though Augustine is proficient in learning the sciences and philosophy of his time what is he unable to formulate?
(a) A personal moral system on the use of knowledge.
(b) How the Manichean thought system can be used in the area of mathematics.
(c) A way to merge Manichean and Chrisitan philosophies.
(d) A personal belief system.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what is Augustine particularly interested?

2. What interests Augustine more than higher goals or values?

3. To whom is Augustine married?

4. What is one of Augustine's future struggles in life?

5. Why does Augustine read books of rhetoric?

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