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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one of Augustine's future struggles in life?
(a) To allow those he love to walk their own path.
(b) To have the spirit of truth and faith to inform his and others' good deeds.
(c) If he should take vows with the church.
(d) Whether to marry his childhood sweetheart and enter into sins of the flesh.

2. What drives Augustine farther away from thoughts of God?
(a) Making money.
(b) Studying the Greek philosophers.
(c) Being a soldier.
(d) Sexual adventures.

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

4. In what is Augustine particularly interested?
(a) The history of the world.
(b) How he can become successful in the church.
(c) The ways religion all led to the same place.
(d) The importance of a person's intentions.

5. What does Augustine feel when he reads of Zeus engaging in fornication and being powerful?
(a) He wants to do these deeds.
(b) Indifferent.
(c) Repulsed.
(d) Curious as to why a god would do that.

Short Answer Questions

1. Besides thievery, in what is Augustine involved?

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

3. How would you characterize Augustine in this Book?

4. How could Augustine's "journey" be categorized?

5. What does Augustine find odd about Hortensius?

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