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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How would you characterize Augustine in this Book?
(a) A mama's boy.
(b) A pious young man.
(c) A sinful young man.
(d) A serious and studies young man.

2. How long as Augustine been a member of the Manichean sect when he is 29?
(a) 9 years.
(b) 1 year.
(c) 19 years.
(d) 3 years.

3. What is Augustine's new life?
(a) Moving to Britain and starting a monastery.
(b) As a monk of the church.
(c) With the woman he marries.
(d) Going to Africa to preach.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what way does God work?

2. To whom was the book he lost dedicated?

3. How does Augustine define formlessness?

4. Upon what does Augustine wonder?

5. What does Augustine find odd about Hortensius?

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