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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Augustine feel when he reads of Zeus engaging in fornication and being powerful?
(a) Curious as to why a god would do that.
(b) Repulsed.
(c) Indifferent.
(d) He wants to do these deeds.

2. What is a flaw in the book in number 70?
(a) It ignores the possibility of God's existence.
(b) It has only one premise and no synthesis.
(c) It uses poor logic.
(d) It's thesis is flawed.

3. Though Augustine is proficient in learning the sciences and philosophy of his time what is he unable to formulate?
(a) A personal belief system.
(b) How the Manichean thought system can be used in the area of mathematics.
(c) A way to merge Manichean and Chrisitan philosophies.
(d) A personal moral system on the use of knowledge.

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

5. How does Augustine possibly cross the boundaries between friendship and sex?
(a) Being friends with a woman and then seducing her under the guise of friendship.
(b) Being sexually involved with a male friend.
(c) Having sex with the wives of male friends.
(d) He never confuses the two states of being.

Short Answer Questions

1. What books bring a change to Augustine's thinking?

2. Who writes Hortensius?

3. Beyond what is memory?

4. What concept does Augustine have difficult understanding?

5. Why doesn't Ambrose want wine brought to the tombs?

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