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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who joins Augustus in Milan?
(a) His brother.
(b) His wife.
(c) His mother.
(d) No one.

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

4. How does Augustine possibly cross the boundaries between friendship and sex?
(a) Being friends with a woman and then seducing her under the guise of friendship.
(b) He never confuses the two states of being.
(c) Having sex with the wives of male friends.
(d) Being sexually involved with a male friend.

5. How is Augustine a paradox within himself?
(a) He sees a play and feels both sorrow and pleasure in witnessing the suffering.
(b) He sins and yet tells others not to sin.
(c) He wants to do good but does evil instead.
(d) He loves a woman and hates her at the same time.

Short Answer Questions

1. What about Augustine are both of his parents proud?

2. What does Augustine say about people like his mother, Monica?

3. Why does Augustine read books of rhetoric?

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

5. Why does Augustine find a woman to live with him while his fiance is too young?

(see the answer key)

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