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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens when men act wickedly?
(a) They enjoy evil passions.
(b) They are punished either now or later.
(c) They do damage to their own soul.
(d) They chose their will and not God's.

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

3. How is Augustine a paradox within himself?
(a) He loves a woman and hates her at the same time.
(b) He wants to do good but does evil instead.
(c) He sins and yet tells others not to sin.
(d) He sees a play and feels both sorrow and pleasure in witnessing the suffering.

4. What sect does Augustine prefer?
(a) Judain.
(b) Manachean.
(c) Hermite.
(d) Gnostics.

5. What does Ambrose say to bring to the tombs of the saints?
(a) Prayers.
(b) Food.
(c) Animal sacrifices.
(d) Money.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one of Augustine's greatest faults as a boy and young man?

2. What is different between scripture and the books of the Platonists?

3. What does Augustine call his living arrangement?

4. What is the name of a book Augustine wrote that he later lost?

5. How does Victorinus become a Christian?

(see the answer key)

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