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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Into what can the devil make himself?
(a) A minor deity.
(b) An average human.
(c) A reasonable temptation.
(d) An angel of light (Lucifer) who is evil.

2. To whom was the book he lost dedicated?
(a) Hiereus.
(b) Disenyum.
(c) His wife.
(d) Monica, his mother.

3. To whom is Augustine married?
(a) He is not married as he has taken a vow of celibacy.
(b) A woman who is pregnant by him.
(c) A woman of high birth who is poor.
(d) He is not married by in a monogamous relationship.

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

5. What does Augustine refuse?
(a) Animal sacrifice for help.
(b) His best friend's position at the college.
(c) His mother's suggestion that he leave Carthage.
(d) A woman's offer of marriage.

Short Answer Questions

1. What tempts Augustine in this part of his life?

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

3. What sort of philosophy does Augustine have?

4. Who is Adeodatus?

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

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