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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Monica want Augustine to be?
(a) In Carthage and Africa.
(b) In Rome.
(c) In Florence.
(d) In the Vatican.

2. Why does Simplicianus have to stop teaching rhetoric?
(a) His congregation thinks it is heretical.
(b) The Pope forbids it of Christians.
(c) The Roman Emperor Julian forbids Christians to teach rhetoric.
(d) His eyesight is failing.

3. Who does Augustine arrange to marry?
(a) A girl who is two years underage.
(b) A woman he knew from childhood.
(c) A woman he meets there in Milan who is a teacher also.
(d) No one; he decides to never marry.

4. What does Augustine begin to understand from studying the books in question 104?
(a) That corruption is a result of poor choices.
(b) That evil cannot pass through the veil
(c) That God does not look at an evil man.
(d) That evil is a result of ignorance and corruption of the good.

5. What do the Manicheans believe when one their "Elect" digest food gifts?
(a) The Elect move forward on the wheel of time.
(b) Angels or spirits are released to the Manichean's benefit.
(c) The gifts' energy feeds the universe.
(d) The gift is transmuted into divine energy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the story of Victorinus's conversion indicate to Augustine?

2. What type of behavior is not tolerate in Rome?

3. How is Augustine a paradox within himself?

4. With whom does Augustine return to Milan?

5. What does not signal the end of Augustine's struggles?

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