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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Augustine view the holy men of the Bible?
(a) As not entirely righteous.
(b) As terribly flawed.
(c) As delusional.
(d) As too righteous to ever emulate.

3. What does Augustine say about people like his mother, Monica?
(a) That she was the only one whose intentions were always best for Augustine.
(b) That she had very little influence on him.
(c) That she led him astray through her wantoness.
(d) That though righteous, she did not always have the best of intentions.

4. What does Augustine feel when he reads of Zeus engaging in fornication and being powerful?
(a) He wants to do these deeds.
(b) Curious as to why a god would do that.
(c) Indifferent.
(d) Repulsed.

5. 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) How the Manichean thought system can be used in the area of mathematics.
(c) A personal moral system on the use of knowledge.
(d) A personal belief system.

Short Answer Questions

1. Instead of learning Christian stories, what does Augustine learn?

2. What motivates Augustine's decision to become a philosopher?

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

4. What does a Christian priest predict of Augustine?

5. Upon what does Augustine wonder?

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