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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What question does Augustine ask?
(a) Why have I been placed on this earth.
(b) How does Jesus, a dead person, know me.
(c) What does it mean to love God?
(d) How can I know I am going to heaven?

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

3. What is the name of a book Augustine wrote that he later lost?
(a) "The Beautiful Fits All Souls."
(b) "The Beautiful and the Fitting."
(c) "The Fitting Way of Life and Death."
(d) "Fitting One's Soul in the Earthly Physical Life."

4. How can things deeply hidden in memory be recalled?
(a) By hypnotism.
(b) In dreams.
(c) In a conversation.
(d) Through a conscious effort to remember.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Though Augustine is proficient in learning the sciences and philosophy of his time what is he unable to formulate?

2. To whom was the book he lost dedicated?

3. To whom is Augustine married?

4. What sort of philosophy does Augustine have?

5. What do the Manicheans believe when one their "Elect" digest food gifts?

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