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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Adeodatus?
(a) Augustine's current rhetoric teacher.
(b) Augustine's cousin.
(c) Augustine's son.
(d) Augustine's brother.

2. In what does Augustine try to be honest?
(a) In telling his parents about his life.
(b) In how he teaches.
(c) In the various competitions in which he participates.
(d) In paying his taxes to Rome.

3. What does Augustine fear that the pagan myths that he learned studying literature led to?
(a) His personal corruption.
(b) A slovenly attitude towards studying.
(c) Being unable to pray for years.
(d) A lack of faith in the true God.

4. Who accompanies Augustine for the holiday?
(a) No one.
(b) His friend Alypius and his mother Monica.
(c) Septimus.
(d) His wife.

5. What does Augustine call his living arrangement?
(a) The best of both worlds.
(b) A temporary truce with lust.
(c) A marriage made in heaven.
(d) An arrangement of convenience based on lust.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Augustine go to study?

2. What does a Christian priest predict of Augustine?

3. Why does Augustine get in trouble?

4. What does Augustine refuse?

5. Which of Augustine's friends laughed at predicting the future through stargazing?

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