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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens when men act wickedly?
(a) They enjoy evil passions.
(b) They do damage to their own soul.
(c) They are punished either now or later.
(d) They chose their will and not God's.

2. Why does Augustine want to move to Rome?
(a) He wants to study Roman law.
(b) He wants to be near the Pope.
(c) He wants to go to a milder climate.
(d) He has heard the students are more disciplined there.

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

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

5. Who offers Augustine explanations of the Manichean philosophy which does not satisfy Augustine?
(a) Remeer.
(b) Marlette.
(c) Faustus.
(d) Cicero.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Alypius finally give up doing?

3. On what does Augustine eventually blame his actions?

4. Who is Fautus?

5. How would you characterize Augustine in this Book?

(see the answer key)

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