View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Upon what does Augustine wonder?
(a) The lack of even the basic morality of observance of the Ten Commandments in his vicinity.
(b) If his mother wanted him to become a philosopher.
(c) If his father was truly moral.
(d) Whether Jesus really existed.

2. What does Augustine teach?
(a) Liberal arts and rhetoric.
(b) Theology.
(c) Painting and architecture.
(d) Algebra and Calculus.

3. At one point, what does Augustine believe about evil?
(a) That it is an independant force.
(b) That it is as powerful a force as God.
(c) That it is just one aspect of God.
(d) That it doesn't exist.

4. What is the meaning of the phrase that God creates man in his own image?
(a) That man needed God's image and woman don't as they are already pure.
(b) That God has a physical body very much like that of a man.
(c) It is a metaphor referring to the Godlike attributes of man being also a creative and reasoning creature.
(d) It means God creates only man; woman already existed.

5. Into what has St. Augustine sunk?
(a) Sin and lustful behavior.
(b) The a life of glory for God.
(c) A pit of despair.
(d) A deep depression.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Augustine's position in his circle of friends?

2. Why should Monica think Rome is a good place for Augustine?

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

4. What notion does Augustine attack?

5. What happens when men act wickedly?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 365 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample