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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Augustine refuse?
(a) A woman's offer of marriage.
(b) His best friend's position at the college.
(c) His mother's suggestion that he leave Carthage.
(d) Animal sacrifice for help.

2. Where does Augustine go to study?
(a) Carthage.
(b) The Vatican.
(c) Florence.
(d) Rome.

3. What about Augustine are both of his parents proud?
(a) His appeal to women.
(b) His kindness.
(c) His wit.
(d) His intellect.

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 wants to do good but does evil instead.
(c) He loves a woman and hates her at the same time.
(d) He sins and yet tells others not to sin.

5. What happens when men act wickedly?
(a) They chose their will and not God's.
(b) They enjoy evil passions.
(c) They are punished either now or later.
(d) They do damage to their own soul.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one of Augustine's greatest faults as a boy and young man?

2. What is the name of a book Augustine wrote that he later lost?

3. On what does Augustine eventually blame his actions?

4. At what age does Augustine decide to become a philosopher?

5. Who does Augustine meet in Milan?

(see the answer key)

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