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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Simplicianus tell Augustine Victorinus does before his recent passing?
(a) Prophesizes that Augustine will die in sin.
(b) Converts to the Manichean sect.
(c) Converted to Christianity.
(d) Prophesizes that Augustine will be a lion of God.

5. How does Augustine see Christianity as being deficient?
(a) It is too simplistic.
(b) It is too improbable.
(c) It fails to impress Augustine with its superior viewpoint to the many other religions and sects available.
(d) It doesn't promote change through violence or any means possible.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Augustine fear that the pagan myths that he learned studying literature led to?

2. To what does Augustine come to think the predictions of astrologists are due?

3. What sect does Augustine prefer?

4. To whom was the book he lost dedicated?

5. Into what has St. Augustine sunk?

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