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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does a Christian priest predict of Augustine?
(a) He will never live long enough to repent.
(b) He will die in his sins.
(c) He will change and convert to Christianity.
(d) He will become a great defender of the Greek gods.

2. How does Augustine possibly cross the boundaries between friendship and sex?
(a) Being friends with a woman and then seducing her under the guise of friendship.
(b) He never confuses the two states of being.
(c) Having sex with the wives of male friends.
(d) Being sexually involved with a male friend.

3. What does Augustine refuse?
(a) Animal sacrifice for help.
(b) His best friend's position at the college.
(c) A woman's offer of marriage.
(d) His mother's suggestion that he leave Carthage.

4. 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) For the prestige that a marriage could have brought.
(d) So that at least his sexual lust would have produced a family.

5. Why does Augustine get in trouble?
(a) He follows his friends who are smarter than he.
(b) He has no discipline.
(c) He is angry with his father.
(d) He believes he deserves a better life.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To whom was the book he lost dedicated?

3. Why does Augustine write the confessions?

4. In what does Augustine try to be honest?

5. Which of Augustine's friends laughed at predicting the future through stargazing?

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