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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a flaw in the book in number 70?
(a) It's thesis is flawed.
(b) It has only one premise and no synthesis.
(c) It uses poor logic.
(d) It ignores the possibility of God's existence.

2. What book does Augustine understand that challenges many people?
(a) The Ten Comandments of Manichean Life.
(b) The Ten Categories.
(c) The Categories that Govern the Stars.
(d) The Categorical Allusion.

3. Why does Augustine get in trouble?
(a) He follows his friends who are smarter than he.
(b) He believes he deserves a better life.
(c) He has no discipline.
(d) He is angry with his father.

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

5. What does Augustine teach?
(a) Liberal arts and rhetoric.
(b) Painting and architecture.
(c) Theology.
(d) Algebra and Calculus.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Why does Augustine read books of rhetoric?

4. What does Augustine resent about his studies of Latin and Greek literature?

5. With what is Augustine preoccupied?

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