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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With whom does Augustine return to Milan?
(a) With his friend Alypius.
(b) With his wife.
(c) No one.
(d) With his mother.

2. What motivates Augustine's decision to become a philosopher?
(a) The money philosophers make in those days.
(b) The power to change people.
(c) Pride at being smarter than many other of his peers.
(d) His father's desire for him to do so.

3. What does Augustine fabricate in order to be accepted by his peers?
(a) Stories of his sisters' beauty.
(b) Stories about meeting the Emperor.
(c) Stories of sexual conquests.
(d) Stories of the wealth of his family.

4. To what does Augustine come to think the predictions of astrologists are due?
(a) A weakness of the brain.
(b) A misunderstanding of astronomy.
(c) Purely a matter of chance, plus taking into account a person's condition, wealth, and circumstances.
(d) Making the predictions so general, they can apply to almost anyone.

5. What does Augustine say about people like his mother, Monica?
(a) That she had very little influence on him.
(b) That she was the only one whose intentions were always best for Augustine.
(c) That she led him astray through her wantoness.
(d) That though righteous, she did not always have the best of intentions.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the book Hortensius give Augustine?

2. How can things deeply hidden in memory be recalled?

3. How does Augustine see Christianity as being deficient?

4. What is one of Augustine's greatest faults as a boy and young man?

5. Why does Augustine wish his family had arranged a marriage for him?

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