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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How would you characterize Augustine in this Book?
(a) A serious and studies young man.
(b) A pious young man.
(c) A sinful young man.
(d) A mama's boy.

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

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

5. Why does Augustine read books of rhetoric?
(a) He is pleasing his father.
(b) To make a name for himself.
(c) He is required to do so.
(d) He wants to learn to argue like they do.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why should Monica think Rome is a good place for Augustine?

2. Who is Fautus?

3. Why does Augustine get in trouble?

4. What does Augustine find odd about Hortensius?

5. What happens to a friend who is ill and unconscious?

(see the answer key)

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