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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the Manicheans believe when one their "Elect" digest food gifts?
(a) The Elect move forward on the wheel of time.
(b) The gifts' energy feeds the universe.
(c) The gift is transmuted into divine energy.
(d) Angels or spirits are released to the Manichean's benefit.

2. What does the story of Victorinus's conversion indicate to Augustine?
(a) That it is never to late to change.
(b) The lengths Christians will go to to save a soul.
(c) That a man wiser than Augustine chose it, so it would be right for Augustine.
(d) The deep compatibility between Platonic philosophy and Catholic Christianity.

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

4. What happens to a friend who is ill and unconscious?
(a) They use leeches on him.
(b) His is exorcised.
(c) He has a miraculous recovery and outlives Augustine.
(d) He is baptized.

5. In the Manichean doctrine, what does light and darkness represent?
(a) Morality and immorality.
(b) The way and the non-way.
(c) The smooth path and the rocky path.
(d) Good and evil.

Short Answer Questions

1. Instead of having a body, how does Augustine see God?

2. What about Augustine are both of his parents proud?

3. What happens to Verecundus before his death?

4. Who writes Hortensius?

5. What does a Christian priest predict of Augustine?

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