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While a student in this city is avoiding a gang of hoodlums called “the Wreckers,” his mother has a dream of him standing on (-5[1])a “wooden rule.” (15[1])The narrator chastises his boyhood self for weeping (-5[1])over a scene set in this city but not crying for his “own wretched self.” The protagonist sails away from this city after tricking his mother into spending the night praying at a shrine. After arriving in this city, the protagonist experiences a “cauldron of unholy loves” that “sings all around” his ears. The end of “The (*) Fire Sermon” section of “The Waste Land” quotes that narrator’s declaration, “To [this city] then I came.” (10[3])While studying (10[1])in this city, a native of Thagaste is disappointed by the ignorance of the Manichean preacher Faustus. (-5[1])For 10 points, Augustine’s Confessions depicts his hedonistic (-5[1])life in what North (10[1])African (10[1])city, (-5[1])and repeatedly references its Queen Dido? ■END■ (10[5])

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