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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Augustine believe a person starts sinning?
(a) Never.
(b) Right at infancy.
(c) At puberty.
(d) When one becomes married.

2. Instead of learning Christian stories, what does Augustine learn?
(a) He learned and admired the Gods in pagan myths.
(b) The precepts of Buddhism.
(c) How to be a successful businessman.
(d) How to be a soldier.

3. Why does Augustine wish his family had arranged a marriage for him?
(a) So that he wouldn't have to become a monk.
(b) So his mother could be taken care of.
(c) So that at least his sexual lust would have produced a family.
(d) For the prestige that a marriage could have brought.

4. What is one of Augustine's greatest faults as a boy and young man?
(a) Overly diligent.
(b) Pride.
(c) He really had few faults, not too bad.
(d) Too serious.

5. What interests Augustine more than higher goals or values?
(a) Success and fame.
(b) Intellectual knowledge.
(c) Love and friendship.
(d) Wealth.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Instead of studying the literal meaning of a phrase what is important to study?

3. How does Augustine leave Carthage and his mother?

4. What does Augustine resent about his studies of Latin and Greek literature?

5. Why does Augustine find a woman to live with him while his fiance is too young?

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