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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What motivates Augustine's decision to become a philosopher?
(a) The power to change people.
(b) His father's desire for him to do so.
(c) The money philosophers make in those days.
(d) Pride at being smarter than many other of his peers.

2. What is the Fables of Manes?
(a) A book that tells how to care for horses.
(b) A book of fables about the creation of the earth.
(c) A book of the Manicheans.
(d) A book written by Aesop.

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

4. Why does Augustine write the confessions?
(a) By order of the Pope.
(b) To find out the sources of his errors earlier in life and also to encourage the faithful in seeking truth and knowledge of God.
(c) In order to show his sincerity to be admitted to a monk order.
(d) For his final project in school.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Augustine meet in Milan?

2. What is Augustine's position in his circle of friends?

3. To whom is Augustine married?

4. With what is Augustine in love?

5. Who is Adeodatus?

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