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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Augustine believe a person starts sinning?
(a) When one becomes married.
(b) At puberty.
(c) Right at infancy.
(d) Never.

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

3. Where does Augustine go to study?
(a) Rome.
(b) The Vatican.
(c) Carthage.
(d) Florence.

4. What is an argument that Augustine learns from his friend Nebridius?
(a) That evil is only the imagination of man.
(b) That evil is created to draw man to God.
(c) If the darkness could harm God, he wouldn't be the Almighty God.
(d) That light is all that is and therefore dark is nothing.

5. How can memory make you unhappy?
(a) Thinking about what might have been.
(b) Remembering the slights of others and feeling resentful.
(c) By remembering something in the past which disgusts you now.
(d) Not letting go of the negative emotion with a memory.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the mind retain in memory?

2. What is one of Augustine's greatest faults as a boy and young man?

3. What concept does Augustine have difficult understanding?

4. Into what can the devil make himself?

5. What does Augustine resent about his studies of Latin and Greek literature?

(see the answer key)

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