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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who accompanies Augustine for the holiday?
(a) No one.
(b) His wife.
(c) Septimus.
(d) His friend Alypius and his mother Monica.

2. How does Augustine later view the Manichean myths?
(a) As misguided.
(b) As ridiculous.
(c) As evil.
(d) As correct by incomplete.

3. To what does Augustine compare the recitation of a psalm?
(a) Hope spoken.
(b) The song of creation.
(c) The passing of one human life or all of human history.
(d) Nothing.

4. What does Augustine say is wrong about the existence of God in time?
(a) It is wrong to say that time could have existed before God's creation of the heaven and the earth.
(b) That time is a creation of God.
(c) That God even exists in time.
(d) That time is real to even compare it to God's existence.

5. Why does Augustine want to move to Rome?
(a) He wants to go to a milder climate.
(b) He wants to study Roman law.
(c) He wants to be near the Pope.
(d) He has heard the students are more disciplined there.

Short Answer Questions

1. What concept does Augustine have difficult understanding?

2. Though Augustine is proficient in learning the sciences and philosophy of his time what is he unable to formulate?

3. As time goes on, what happens to the future?

4. What does the mind retain in memory?

5. What does Augustine find odd about Hortensius?

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