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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Augustine teach?
(a) Liberal arts and rhetoric.
(b) Painting and architecture.
(c) Theology.
(d) Algebra and Calculus.

2. What does Augustine think would happen if there was really a kingdom of light versus a kingdom of darkness?
(a) They would cancel each other out and there would be nothing.
(b) The light would outshine the dark and there could then be no dark.
(c) The darkness would cover up the light and there would therefore be no light.
(d) God would destroy the kingdom of darkness.

3. In the Manichean doctrine, what does light and darkness represent?
(a) The way and the non-way.
(b) Morality and immorality.
(c) Good and evil.
(d) The smooth path and the rocky path.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is an argument that Augustine learns from his friend Nebridius?

2. What book does Augustine understand that challenges many people?

3. What happens to a friend who is ill and unconscious?

4. To whom was the book he lost dedicated?

5. When does Augustine reject astrology?

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