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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What tempts Augustine in this part of his life?
(a) Music.
(b) Women.
(c) Drink.
(d) Vanity.

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

3. What differs for each individual and even at different periods of a person's life?
(a) Faith.
(b) The happy life.
(c) God.
(d) Memory.

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

5. What does Augustine begin to understand from studying the books in question 104?
(a) That God does not look at an evil man.
(b) That evil is a result of ignorance and corruption of the good.
(c) That evil cannot pass through the veil
(d) That corruption is a result of poor choices.

Short Answer Questions

1. Into what can the devil make himself?

2. What question does Augustine ask?

3. What is one definition of evil?

4. To whom is Augustine married?

5. What is a flaw in the book in number 70?

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