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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what does Augustine try to be honest?
(a) In the various competitions in which he participates.
(b) In telling his parents about his life.
(c) In paying his taxes to Rome.
(d) In how he teaches.

2. Who accompanies Augustine for the holiday?
(a) His wife.
(b) Septimus.
(c) His friend Alypius and his mother Monica.
(d) No one.

3. What does Augustine call his living arrangement?
(a) A marriage made in heaven.
(b) An arrangement of convenience based on lust.
(c) The best of both worlds.
(d) A temporary truce with lust.

4. Besides concrete detail, what else does the mind remember?
(a) Feelings.
(b) Dates.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Ideas.

5. Why do Augustine and his friends steal a pear?
(a) Because they are hungry students.
(b) Because there is a beggar who is starving and they give it to him.
(c) For the pure pleasure of thievery.
(d) Because the owner of the fruit trees had insulted them.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who writes Hortensius?

2. What is Ambrose's intent about his preferences at the tombs?

3. From what is a human being, no matter how saintly, never fully free?

4. Why does Simplicianus have to stop teaching rhetoric?

5. In what way does God work?

(see the answer key)

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