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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Augustine's position in his circle of friends?
(a) Someone on the fringes.
(b) A follower.
(c) He is a loner.
(d) A leader.

2. In what does Augustine try to be honest?
(a) In the various competitions in which he participates.
(b) In telling his parents about his life.
(c) In paying his taxes to Rome.
(d) In how he teaches.

3. Why is Augustine's father is willing to shoulder large financial burdens?
(a) To give his wife a luxurious lifestyle.
(b) To have large doweries for his daughters.
(c) To have servants to care for his children.
(d) To help Augustine succeed.

4. Why do Augustine and his friends steal a pear?
(a) For the pure pleasure of thievery.
(b) Because the owner of the fruit trees had insulted them.
(c) Because they are hungry students.
(d) Because there is a beggar who is starving and they give it to him.

5. Where does Augustine go to study?
(a) The Vatican.
(b) Carthage.
(c) Florence.
(d) Rome.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does a Christian priest predict of Augustine?

2. What does Augustine fabricate in order to be accepted by his peers?

3. Besides thievery, in what is Augustine involved?

4. How does Augustine leave Carthage and his mother?

5. What does Alypius finally give up doing?

(see the answer key)

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