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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 one definition of evil?
(a) A decision to not follow one's own heart.
(b) The absence of good intentions.
(c) A perversity of the will and a turning against God.
(d) A active pushing away of a child from the light.

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

3. How can memory make you unhappy?
(a) By remembering something in the past which disgusts you now.
(b) Thinking about what might have been.
(c) Not letting go of the negative emotion with a memory.
(d) Remembering the slights of others and feeling resentful.

4. What differs for each individual and even at different periods of a person's life?
(a) The happy life.
(b) God.
(c) Memory.
(d) Faith.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom was the book he lost dedicated?

2. Instead of having a body, how does Augustine see God?

3. To whom is Augustine married?

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

5. What does Augustine call his living arrangement?

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