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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the Fables of Manes?
(a) A book of the Manicheans.
(b) A book that tells how to care for horses.
(c) A book written by Aesop.
(d) A book of fables about the creation of the earth.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What motivates Augustine's decision to become a philosopher?

3. What is the meaning of the phrase that God creates man in his own image?

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

5. What does Ambrose say to bring to the tombs of the saints?

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