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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sect does Augustine prefer?
(a) Hermite.
(b) Judain.
(c) Manachean.
(d) Gnostics.

2. What is one of Augustine's future struggles in life?
(a) Whether to marry his childhood sweetheart and enter into sins of the flesh.
(b) To have the spirit of truth and faith to inform his and others' good deeds.
(c) If he should take vows with the church.
(d) To allow those he love to walk their own path.

3. Instead of having a body, how does Augustine see God?
(a) As spirit only.
(b) As vibration.
(c) As thought only.
(d) As having some sort of material substance.

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

5. What is better to seek after than earthly pleasures?
(a) To be kind to all.
(b) Marriage and propagating as God commanded.
(c) Joyful living with God.
(d) Heaven through being an ascetic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sort of philosophy does Augustine have?

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

3. With what is Augustine in love?

4. What does Augustine teach?

5. What does Augustine feel when he reads of Zeus engaging in fornication and being powerful?

(see the answer key)

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