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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one definition of evil?
(a) A perversity of the will and a turning against God.
(b) A active pushing away of a child from the light.
(c) The absence of good intentions.
(d) A decision to not follow one's own heart.

2. Who is Adeodatus?
(a) Augustine's current rhetoric teacher.
(b) Augustine's son.
(c) Augustine's cousin.
(d) Augustine's brother.

3. By what does Augustine feel overwhelmed?
(a) By his friend's miraculous recovery.
(b) By the task set before him by God.
(c) By the power of sin and death.
(d) By his inability to corrupt his friends faith.

4. Why does Augustine publish his Confessions?
(a) To convert pagans.
(b) To see if there were others out there like him.
(c) To earn some money.
(d) So the public to know what he once was and what he is now after his Christian conversion.

5. What does Augustine think would happen if there was really a kingdom of light versus a kingdom of darkness?
(a) The light would outshine the dark and there could then be no dark.
(b) They would cancel each other out and there would be nothing.
(c) The darkness would cover up the light and there would therefore be no light.
(d) God would destroy the kingdom of darkness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What concept does Augustine have difficult understanding?

2. Besides concrete detail, what else does the mind remember?

3. What differs for each individual and even at different periods of a person's life?

4. What tempts Augustine in this part of his life?

5. What does the mind retain in memory?

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