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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the mind retain in memory?
(a) Not just an image of an object, but all qualities of an object, the thing itself.
(b) God.
(c) Love more than anything.
(d) Self.

2. What about Augustine are both of his parents proud?
(a) His kindness.
(b) His intellect.
(c) His wit.
(d) His appeal to women.

3. What happens when men act wickedly?
(a) They enjoy evil passions.
(b) They are punished either now or later.
(c) They chose their will and not God's.
(d) They do damage to their own soul.

4. Of what is Augustine reassured?
(a) That God is just waiting on him.
(b) That he does not have to give up his philosophical and scientific inquiries.
(c) That Jesus loves him.
(d) That the end does indeed justify the means.

5. To what does Augustine compare the recitation of a psalm?
(a) Hope spoken.
(b) The song of creation.
(c) Nothing.
(d) The passing of one human life or all of human history.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Victorinus?

2. What happens to Verecundus before his death?

3. What does Augustine find odd about Hortensius?

4. What story does Augustine learn from a man named Firminus?

5. What does Augustine fear that the pagan myths that he learned studying literature led to?

(see the answer key)

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