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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 gift is transmuted into divine energy.
(b) The gifts' energy feeds the universe.
(c) The Elect move forward on the wheel of time.
(d) Angels or spirits are released to the Manichean's benefit.

2. What does Augustine warn will happen if we move away from God's responsibility for the creation?
(a) We are moving away from reality, since God is the creator of all things.
(b) We then hand over responsibility for creation to Lucifer.
(c) We assume responsibility ourselves for creation.
(d) We imply creation is an illusion.

3. What can the mind remember though it doesn't exist anymore?
(a) Birth.
(b) Nothing.
(c) One's past deaths.
(d) The past.

4. Who has Augustine already studied much?
(a) The Platonists and their natural philosophy.
(b) The Greek gods.
(c) The Gnostics.
(d) The development of Chrisitanity in Britian.

5. How can things deeply hidden in memory be recalled?
(a) In a conversation.
(b) In dreams.
(c) Through a conscious effort to remember.
(d) By hypnotism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the mind retain in memory?

2. Why does Augustine write the confessions?

3. What sect does Augustine prefer?

4. What concept does Augustine have difficult understanding?

5. How is Augustine a paradox within himself?

(see the answer key)

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