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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 something Augustine finds very difficult to follow in real life?
(a) It is necessary to follow the word of God, and not even be tied down to one's own flesh.
(b) The Golden Rule.
(c) Monogamy.
(d) The precepts of the Manicheans.

2. What does Augustine think would happen if there was really a kingdom of light versus a kingdom of darkness?
(a) They would cancel each other out and there would be nothing.
(b) The light would outshine the dark and there could then be no dark.
(c) The darkness would cover up the light and there would therefore be no light.
(d) God would destroy the kingdom of darkness.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. From what is a human being, no matter how saintly, never fully free?

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

3. What is different between scripture and the books of the Platonists?

4. Who is Adeodatus?

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

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