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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Upon what does Augustine wonder?
(a) If his mother wanted him to become a philosopher.
(b) The lack of even the basic morality of observance of the Ten Commandments in his vicinity.
(c) If his father was truly moral.
(d) Whether Jesus really existed.

2. What concept does Augustine have difficult understanding?
(a) That Christ is God and has a body.
(b) That Christ is the same as others but more enlightened.
(c) That God has no body but loves man who does.
(d) That God has emotions.

3. Who offers Augustine explanations of the Manichean philosophy which does not satisfy Augustine?
(a) Marlette.
(b) Remeer.
(c) Cicero.
(d) Faustus.

4. What notion does Augustine attack?
(a) That there is no wrong behavior.
(b) The idea of the innocence of childhood.
(c) That if one studies diligently, one can come to understand how the world works.
(d) That women are not equal to men.

5. What does Augustine think would happen if there was really a kingdom of light versus a kingdom of darkness?
(a) The light would outshine the dark and there could then be no dark.
(b) God would destroy the kingdom of darkness.
(c) They would cancel each other out and there would be nothing.
(d) The darkness would cover up the light and there would therefore be no light.

Short Answer Questions

1. What motivates Augustine's decision to become a philosopher?

2. When does Augustine reject astrology?

3. What does the story of Victorinus's conversion indicate to Augustine?

4. How is Augustine a paradox within himself?

5. Which of Augustine's friends laughed at predicting the future through stargazing?

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