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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Victorinus?
(a) A man who is studying the Greek gods with Augustine.
(b) A man who translates the Platonist texts into Gaelic.
(c) A man who translates the Platonist texts into modern Greek.
(d) A man who translates the Platonist texts into Latin.

2. To whom is Augustine married?
(a) He is not married by in a monogamous relationship.
(b) A woman who is pregnant by him.
(c) He is not married as he has taken a vow of celibacy.
(d) A woman of high birth who is poor.

3. Why does Augustine believe it is not the motion of the heavenly bodies that determines the length of a day?
(a) Because heavenly bodies are motionless and therefore cannot make time move.
(b) Because different heavenly bodies move at different speeds.
(c) Because God could not have created the earth in 7 earth days.
(d) Because heavenly bodies are in a set relation to each other always.

4. What can the mind remember though it doesn't exist anymore?
(a) One's past deaths.
(b) Birth.
(c) The past.
(d) Nothing.

5. Who does Augustine meet in Milan?
(a) Archbishop Marlowe.
(b) Bishop John Paul.
(c) Friar Tuck.
(d) Bishop Ambrose.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why doesn't Ambrose want wine brought to the tombs?

2. At one point, what does Augustine believe about evil?

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

4. What sort of philosophy does Augustine have?

5. Where does Monica want Augustine to be?

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