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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Augustine want to move to Rome?
(a) He has heard the students are more disciplined there.
(b) He wants to go to a milder climate.
(c) He wants to study Roman law.
(d) He wants to be near the Pope.

2. Though Augustine is proficient in learning the sciences and philosophy of his time what is he unable to formulate?
(a) A way to merge Manichean and Chrisitan philosophies.
(b) A personal moral system on the use of knowledge.
(c) How the Manichean thought system can be used in the area of mathematics.
(d) A personal belief system.

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

4. What author does Augustine dislike?
(a) Virgil.
(b) Homer.
(c) Socrates.
(d) Plato.

5. What differs for each individual and even at different periods of a person's life?
(a) Faith.
(b) The happy life.
(c) God.
(d) Memory.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Instead of having a body, how does Augustine see God?

3. What drives Augustine farther away from thoughts of God?

4. What does a Christian priest predict of Augustine?

5. What is Augustine's native language?

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