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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What books bring a change to Augustine's thinking?
(a) Grendal and the Four Horsemen.
(b) Books of the disciples of Socrates.
(c) Books of the Platonists.
(d) The Illiad and Odyssey.

2. What story does Augustine learn from a man named Firminus?
(a) Of a time when astrology really was accurate.
(b) About the son of a rich man and the son of a slave are born at almost the exact same time, and under the same stars.
(c) Of the fact that twins always have the same fates.
(d) Of how Jesus used the stars to predict events.

3. Upon what does Augustine reflect as to the nature of life and death?
(a) God controls all aspects of life and death.
(b) It is inevitable but only controlled by fate.
(c) Time passes, and people die, and that is the nature of things.
(d) Life is only a cruel joke and death is the punchline.

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

5. What do we remember when we are sad?
(a) The past.
(b) God.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Love.

Short Answer Questions

1. Into what can the devil make himself?

2. What is something Augustine finds very difficult to follow in real life?

3. What is one definition of evil?

4. What does Augustine begin to understand from studying the books in question 104?

5. What concept does Augustine have difficult understanding?

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