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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Augustine leave Carthage and his mother?
(a) With her disowning him.
(b) He pretends to just be seeing a friend off at the docks but gets on a ship, too.
(c) By sneaking away while his mother is in Athens.
(d) With his mother's blessings.

2. By what does Augustine feel overwhelmed?
(a) By the task set before him by God.
(b) By his friend's miraculous recovery.
(c) By his inability to corrupt his friends faith.
(d) By the power of sin and death.

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

4. Instead of learning Christian stories, what does Augustine learn?
(a) How to be a soldier.
(b) He learned and admired the Gods in pagan myths.
(c) How to be a successful businessman.
(d) The precepts of Buddhism.

5. With what is Augustine in love?
(a) With himself.
(b) With vice.
(c) With violence.
(d) With being in love.

Short Answer Questions

1. What drives Augustine farther away from thoughts of God?

2. How is Augustine a paradox within himself?

3. Why does Augustine get in trouble?

4. To whom is Augustine married?

5. In what is Augustine particularly interested?

(see the answer key)

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