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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What is an argument that Augustine learns from his friend Nebridius?
(a) That evil is created to draw man to God.
(b) If the darkness could harm God, he wouldn't be the Almighty God.
(c) That evil is only the imagination of man.
(d) That light is all that is and therefore dark is nothing.

5. How can things deeply hidden in memory be recalled?
(a) By hypnotism.
(b) Through a conscious effort to remember.
(c) In dreams.
(d) In a conversation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What question does Augustine ask?

2. What does Augustine call his living arrangement?

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

4. To whom was the book he lost dedicated?

5. What does Augustine refuse?

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