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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Augustine's father is willing to shoulder large financial burdens?
(a) To give his wife a luxurious lifestyle.
(b) To have large doweries for his daughters.
(c) To help Augustine succeed.
(d) To have servants to care for his children.

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

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

4. What does Augustine say is wrong about the existence of God in time?
(a) That time is real to even compare it to God's existence.
(b) That God even exists in time.
(c) It is wrong to say that time could have existed before God's creation of the heaven and the earth.
(d) That time is a creation of God.

5. Where does Augustine go to study?
(a) The Vatican.
(b) Florence.
(c) Rome.
(d) Carthage.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Alypius finally give up doing?

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

3. To whom was the book he lost dedicated?

4. Who does Augustine meet in Milan?

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

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