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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From what is a human being, no matter how saintly, never fully free?
(a) The need for sexual release.
(b) Anger.
(c) Temptation.
(d) The past.

2. Why does Augustine read books of rhetoric?
(a) He is required to do so.
(b) He is pleasing his father.
(c) He wants to learn to argue like they do.
(d) To make a name for himself.

3. By what does Augustine feel overwhelmed?
(a) By the task set before him by God.
(b) By the power of sin and death.
(c) By his friend's miraculous recovery.
(d) By his inability to corrupt his friends faith.

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

5. What motivates Augustine's decision to become a philosopher?
(a) The power to change people.
(b) His father's desire for him to do so.
(c) The money philosophers make in those days.
(d) Pride at being smarter than many other of his peers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Into what can the devil make himself?

2. What do we remember when we are sad?

3. At the beginning of this book, where is Augustine a student?

4. What does Augustine teach?

5. What does Augustine say is wrong about the existence of God in time?

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