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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of behavior is not tolerate in Rome?
(a) Showing no regard for one's parents.
(b) Spitting on the streets.
(c) Students who are disruptive.
(d) Refusing to stand when a teacher enters.

2. What indicates that Augustine is not quite ready to fully embrace the way of being a priest of Christianity?
(a) He still has a mistress.
(b) He has not yet divorced his wife.
(c) He still goes to the houses of "ill repute."
(d) He still attends Manichean rites.

3. Of what is Augustine reassured?
(a) That Jesus loves him.
(b) That God is just waiting on him.
(c) That the end does indeed justify the means.
(d) That he does not have to give up his philosophical and scientific inquiries.

4. What is Ambrose's intent about his preferences at the tombs?
(a) To keep people from getting too joyful.
(b) To promote restraint and moral behavior.
(c) To keep the wrong kind of people out.
(d) To promote a higher spiritual communion.

5. Instead of having a body, how does Augustine see God?
(a) As having some sort of material substance.
(b) As vibration.
(c) As spirit only.
(d) As thought only.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do Augustine and his friends steal a pear?

2. How is Augustine a paradox within himself?

3. With what is Augustine in love?

4. What book does Augustine understand that challenges many people?

5. Why doesn't Ambrose want wine brought to the tombs?

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