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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 an argument that Augustine learns from his friend Nebridius?
(a) That evil is created to draw man to God.
(b) If the darkness could harm God, he wouldn't be the Almighty God.
(c) That evil is only the imagination of man.
(d) That light is all that is and therefore dark is nothing.

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

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

4. What is a flaw in the book in number 70?
(a) It's thesis is flawed.
(b) It uses poor logic.
(c) It has only one premise and no synthesis.
(d) It ignores the possibility of God's existence.

5. What does Augustine call his living arrangement?
(a) A marriage made in heaven.
(b) The best of both worlds.
(c) A temporary truce with lust.
(d) An arrangement of convenience based on lust.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Augustine come to think the predictions of astrologists are due?

2. By what does Augustine feel overwhelmed?

3. What does Augustine begin to understand from studying the books in question 104?

4. What do we remember when we are sad?

5. What concept does Augustine have difficult understanding?

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