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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is the name of a book Augustine wrote that he later lost?
(a) "The Fitting Way of Life and Death."
(b) "The Beautiful Fits All Souls."
(c) "The Beautiful and the Fitting."
(d) "Fitting One's Soul in the Earthly Physical Life."

Short Answer Questions

1. By what does Augustine feel overwhelmed?

2. What does the mind retain in memory?

3. Beyond what is memory?

4. What is one definition of evil?

5. In the Manichean doctrine, what does light and darkness represent?

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