1. Upon what does Augustine reflect as to the nature of life and death?
(a) It is inevitable but only controlled by fate.
(b) Life is only a cruel joke and death is the punchline.
(c) Time passes, and people die, and that is the nature of things.
(d) God controls all aspects of life and death.

2. How does Augustine later view the Manichean myths?
(a) As ridiculous.
(b) As misguided.
(c) As evil.
(d) As correct by incomplete.

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) Having sex with the wives of male friends.
(d) Being sexually involved with a male friend.

4. What does Augustine resent about his studies of Latin and Greek literature?
(a) How it took up so much of his youth.
(b) How the teachers thought they were so important.
(c) How he was led astray morally by some of the stories.
(d) How it alienates him from his classmates.

5. What does Augustine say about people like his mother, Monica?
(a) That she led him astray through her wantoness.
(b) That she was the only one whose intentions were always best for Augustine.
(c) That she had very little influence on him.
(d) That though righteous, she did not always have the best of intentions.