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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Before the Heavens and the Earth existed what does Augustine say did not exist?
(a) Everything.
(b) Love.
(c) Evil.
(d) Cycles of the sun, the moon, or the planets.

2. With whom does Augustine return to Milan?
(a) No one.
(b) With his friend Alypius.
(c) With his mother.
(d) With his wife.

3. Why does Augustine believe it is not the motion of the heavenly bodies that determines the length of a day?
(a) Because heavenly bodies are motionless and therefore cannot make time move.
(b) Because different heavenly bodies move at different speeds.
(c) Because heavenly bodies are in a set relation to each other always.
(d) Because God could not have created the earth in 7 earth days.

4. Why do Augustine and his friends steal a pear?
(a) Because there is a beggar who is starving and they give it to him.
(b) Because they are hungry students.
(c) Because the owner of the fruit trees had insulted them.
(d) For the pure pleasure of thievery.

5. What notion does Augustine attack?
(a) That there is no wrong behavior.
(b) The idea of the innocence of childhood.
(c) That if one studies diligently, one can come to understand how the world works.
(d) That women are not equal to men.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Augustine possibly cross the boundaries between friendship and sex?

2. What does the story of Victorinus's conversion indicate to Augustine?

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

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

5. Why is Augustine's father is willing to shoulder large financial burdens?

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