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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What interests Augustine more than higher goals or values?
(a) Wealth.
(b) Intellectual knowledge.
(c) Love and friendship.
(d) Success and fame.

2. What does Augustine refuse?
(a) Animal sacrifice for help.
(b) His best friend's position at the college.
(c) A woman's offer of marriage.
(d) His mother's suggestion that he leave Carthage.

3. Why does Augustine write the confessions?
(a) To find out the sources of his errors earlier in life and also to encourage the faithful in seeking truth and knowledge of God.
(b) By order of the Pope.
(c) In order to show his sincerity to be admitted to a monk order.
(d) For his final project in school.

4. What does Augustine fabricate in order to be accepted by his peers?
(a) Stories of sexual conquests.
(b) Stories about meeting the Emperor.
(c) Stories of his sisters' beauty.
(d) Stories of the wealth of his family.

5. What is non-existent except when it is the present?
(a) Happiness.
(b) The past and future.
(c) Life.
(d) God.

Short Answer Questions

1. What about Augustine are both of his parents proud?

2. What does the mind retain in memory?

3. Who leaves Augustine to return to Africa?

4. What happens when men act wickedly?

5. What is something Augustine finds very difficult to follow in real life?

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