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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 current rhetoric teacher.
(b) Augustine's cousin.
(c) Augustine's son.
(d) Augustine's brother.

2. Besides concrete detail, what else does the mind remember?
(a) Dates.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Ideas.
(d) Feelings.

3. What concept does Augustine have difficult understanding?
(a) That Christ is the same as others but more enlightened.
(b) That Christ is God and has a body.
(c) That God has no body but loves man who does.
(d) That God has emotions.

4. How can memory make you unhappy?
(a) Remembering the slights of others and feeling resentful.
(b) Not letting go of the negative emotion with a memory.
(c) By remembering something in the past which disgusts you now.
(d) Thinking about what might have been.

5. When does Augustine reject astrology?
(a) When it says he was to die when he was 28 and he doesn't.
(b) After speaking to an old man Vindicianus, and also due to the arguments of his friend Nebridius.
(c) When the stars show a pattern not predicted.
(d) When he studies his horoscope for a year and very little comes true.

Short Answer Questions

1. Beyond what is memory?

2. To whom was the book he lost dedicated?

3. What books bring a change to Augustine's thinking?

4. Why does Augustine publish his Confessions?

5. What is a flaw in the book in number 70?

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