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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For what is there always a rationale?
(a) Studying esoteric philosophies.
(b) Sin.
(c) Making money.
(d) Going to Rome.

2. What does a Christian priest predict of Augustine?
(a) He will never live long enough to repent.
(b) He will become a great defender of the Greek gods.
(c) He will die in his sins.
(d) He will change and convert to Christianity.

3. Why does Augustine wish his family had arranged a marriage for him?
(a) So that at least his sexual lust would have produced a family.
(b) So his mother could be taken care of.
(c) So that he wouldn't have to become a monk.
(d) For the prestige that a marriage could have brought.

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

5. How does Augustine view the holy men of the Bible?
(a) As too righteous to ever emulate.
(b) As not entirely righteous.
(c) As delusional.
(d) As terribly flawed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one of Augustine's future struggles in life?

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

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

4. Why do Augustine and his friends steal a pear?

5. At the beginning of this book, where is Augustine a student?

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