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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What concept does Augustine have difficult understanding?
(a) That God has emotions.
(b) That Christ is the same as others but more enlightened.
(c) That God has no body but loves man who does.
(d) That Christ is God and has a body.

2. Though Augustine is proficient in learning the sciences and philosophy of his time what is he unable to formulate?
(a) A way to merge Manichean and Chrisitan philosophies.
(b) A personal moral system on the use of knowledge.
(c) How the Manichean thought system can be used in the area of mathematics.
(d) A personal belief system.

3. Beyond what is memory?
(a) Oneness with God.
(b) Mere memory of sensory impressions and bodily touch.
(c) Death.
(d) Life.

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

5. What story does Augustine learn from a man named Firminus?
(a) Of the fact that twins always have the same fates.
(b) About the son of a rich man and the son of a slave are born at almost the exact same time, and under the same stars.
(c) Of how Jesus used the stars to predict events.
(d) Of a time when astrology really was accurate.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Augustine refuse?

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

3. What books bring a change to Augustine's thinking?

4. How can things deeply hidden in memory be recalled?

5. When does Augustine reject astrology?

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