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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For what is the stealing of the pear a metaphor?
(a) The hopes for fruit without labor.
(b) The good of the earth tainted by Satan.
(c) The desire for goodness without being good.
(d) Those who grab the fruits of goodness without having the spirit of righteousness.

2. What concept does Augustine have difficult understanding?
(a) That Christ is God and has a body.
(b) That God has no body but loves man who does.
(c) That God has emotions.
(d) That Christ is the same as others but more enlightened.

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

4. What is one of Augustine's future struggles in life?
(a) To allow those he love to walk their own path.
(b) To have the spirit of truth and faith to inform his and others' good deeds.
(c) If he should take vows with the church.
(d) Whether to marry his childhood sweetheart and enter into sins of the flesh.

5. What does Simplicianus say Victorinus has to do?
(a) Become a priest.
(b) Go to the Church and convert publicly to Christianity.
(c) Make a pilgrimage to the Holy Lands.
(d) Ask Jesus to open his eyes.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does a Christian priest predict of Augustine?

3. What notion does Augustine attack?

4. What does Augustine teach?

5. What is something Augustine finds very difficult to follow in real life?

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