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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 Augustine's native language?
(a) Gaelic.
(b) Greek.
(c) Latin.
(d) German.

2. How does Augustine possibly cross the boundaries between friendship and sex?
(a) Being friends with a woman and then seducing her under the guise of friendship.
(b) Being sexually involved with a male friend.
(c) He never confuses the two states of being.
(d) Having sex with the wives of male friends.

3. What does Augustine call his living arrangement?
(a) A marriage made in heaven.
(b) An arrangement of convenience based on lust.
(c) A temporary truce with lust.
(d) The best of both worlds.

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

5. Besides thievery, in what is Augustine involved?
(a) Gambling.
(b) Pranks.
(c) Murder.
(d) Cheating on his exams.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Augustine view the holy men of the Bible?

2. What motivates Augustine's decision to become a philosopher?

3. Though Augustine is proficient in learning the sciences and philosophy of his time what is he unable to formulate?

4. Why does he prefer that sect at that time in his life?

5. What is the Fables of Manes?

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