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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Augustine unable to believe in Jesus?
(a) He thinks Christ would be defiled by being born of the Virgin Mary.
(b) He thinks Jesus wasn't a real person.
(c) He thinks Jesus is too good to be true.
(d) He thinks it is impossible for God to be also human.

2. At the beginning of this book, where is Augustine a student?
(a) Lysortium Rhetorium in Rome.
(b) He is out of school.
(c) School of Philosophy in Athens.
(d) School of Rhetoric in Carthage.

3. 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) He never confuses the two states of being.
(c) Being sexually involved with a male friend.
(d) Having sex with the wives of male friends.

4. Why does Augustine read books of rhetoric?
(a) To make a name for himself.
(b) He wants to learn to argue like they do.
(c) He is required to do so.
(d) He is pleasing his father.

5. How does Augustine change his view of evil?
(a) He sees there is not such thing as evil.
(b) He believes evil is created by God and can be annihilated by God.
(c) He sees that evil is caused by corruption and lack of good.
(d) He sees that evil only exists as a concept and is not real.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do Augustine and his friends steal a pear?

2. Into what has St. Augustine sunk?

3. What is Augustine's native language?

4. How does Augustine see Christianity as being deficient?

5. What does Augustine feel when he reads of Zeus engaging in fornication and being powerful?

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