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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the book Hortensius give Augustine?
(a) A love for philosophy.
(b) Knowledge to learn Greek.
(c) A desire to become a famous orator.
(d) Bad dreams.

2. Why doesn't Ambrose want wine brought to the tombs?
(a) It will ferment more and create bad smells.
(b) He doesn't mind wine at the tombs.
(c) It may encourage drunkeness.
(d) It encourages sloth.

3. 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.

4. Who does Augustine arrange to marry?
(a) No one; he decides to never marry.
(b) A woman he knew from childhood.
(c) A woman he meets there in Milan who is a teacher also.
(d) A girl who is two years underage.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How could Augustine's "journey" be categorized?

2. How long as Augustine been a member of the Manichean sect when he is 29?

3. Where does Augustine go to study?

4. With what is Augustine preoccupied?

5. How does Augustine leave Carthage and his mother?

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