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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Which of Augustine's friends laughed at predicting the future through stargazing?
(a) Archemenon.
(b) Neferdata.
(c) Serpius.
(d) Nebridius.

4. To what does Augustine come to think the predictions of astrologists are due?
(a) Making the predictions so general, they can apply to almost anyone.
(b) Purely a matter of chance, plus taking into account a person's condition, wealth, and circumstances.
(c) A misunderstanding of astronomy.
(d) A weakness of the brain.

5. Though Augustine is proficient in learning the sciences and philosophy of his time what is he unable to formulate?
(a) A personal moral system on the use of knowledge.
(b) A personal belief system.
(c) A way to merge Manichean and Chrisitan philosophies.
(d) How the Manichean thought system can be used in the area of mathematics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How can memory make you unhappy?

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

3. How can things deeply hidden in memory be recalled?

4. Upon what does Augustine reflect as to the nature of life and death?

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

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