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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 decision to not follow one's own heart.
(c) A active pushing away of a child from the light.
(d) The absence of good intentions.

2. What story does Augustine learn from a man named Firminus?
(a) Of the fact that twins always have the same fates.
(b) Of a time when astrology really was accurate.
(c) Of how Jesus used the stars to predict events.
(d) 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.

3. What books bring a change to Augustine's thinking?
(a) Books of the Platonists.
(b) The Illiad and Odyssey.
(c) Books of the disciples of Socrates.
(d) Grendal and the Four Horsemen.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Upon what does Augustine reflect as to the nature of life and death?

2. What do we remember when we are sad?

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

4. Instead of having a body, how does Augustine see God?

5. From what is a human being, no matter how saintly, never fully free?

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