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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is better to seek after than earthly pleasures?
(a) To be kind to all.
(b) Marriage and propagating as God commanded.
(c) Heaven through being an ascetic.
(d) Joyful living with God.

3. Upon what does Augustine wonder?
(a) The lack of even the basic morality of observance of the Ten Commandments in his vicinity.
(b) If his mother wanted him to become a philosopher.
(c) If his father was truly moral.
(d) Whether Jesus really existed.

4. Why does Augustine wish his family had arranged a marriage for him?
(a) For the prestige that a marriage could have brought.
(b) So his mother could be taken care of.
(c) So that at least his sexual lust would have produced a family.
(d) So that he wouldn't have to become a monk.

5. 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 is angry with his father.
(d) He has no discipline.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Augustine fear that the pagan myths that he learned studying literature led to?

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

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

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