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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Instead of learning Christian stories, what does Augustine learn?
(a) How to be a soldier.
(b) He learned and admired the Gods in pagan myths.
(c) How to be a successful businessman.
(d) The precepts of Buddhism.

2. What drives Augustine farther away from thoughts of God?
(a) Studying the Greek philosophers.
(b) Making money.
(c) Being a soldier.
(d) Sexual adventures.

3. Besides thievery, in what is Augustine involved?
(a) Pranks.
(b) Cheating on his exams.
(c) Murder.
(d) Gambling.

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

5. What is better to seek after than earthly pleasures?
(a) Joyful living with God.
(b) Marriage and propagating as God commanded.
(c) Heaven through being an ascetic.
(d) To be kind to all.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Augustine get in trouble?

2. What does Augustine fabricate in order to be accepted by his peers?

3. When does Augustine believe a person starts sinning?

4. Into what has St. Augustine sunk?

5. With what is Augustine in love?

(see the answer key)

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