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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What question does Augustine ask?
(a) How does Jesus, a dead person, know me.
(b) What does it mean to love God?
(c) Why have I been placed on this earth.
(d) How can I know I am going to heaven?

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

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

4. What sort of philosophy does Augustine have?
(a) Fundamentalist.
(b) Materialistic.
(c) Spiritual.
(d) Hedonist.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How can memory make you unhappy?

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

3. Though Augustine is proficient in learning the sciences and philosophy of his time what is he unable to formulate?

4. In what does Augustine try to be honest?

5. What is the name of a book Augustine wrote that he later lost?

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