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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the mind retain in memory?
(a) God.
(b) Love more than anything.
(c) Not just an image of an object, but all qualities of an object, the thing itself.
(d) Self.

2. Though formlessness is close to nothing, it is not the same as what?
(a) Hope.
(b) Possibility.
(c) Nothingness.
(d) Potential.

3. With what word in the scriptures is Augustine particularly fascinated?
(a) Time.
(b) Heaven.
(c) Creation.
(d) Formlessness.

4. Why does Simplicianus have to stop teaching rhetoric?
(a) His eyesight is failing.
(b) His congregation thinks it is heretical.
(c) The Roman Emperor Julian forbids Christians to teach rhetoric.
(d) The Pope forbids it of Christians.

5. At one point, what does Augustine believe about evil?
(a) That it doesn't exist.
(b) That it is an independant force.
(c) That it is just one aspect of God.
(d) That it is as powerful a force as God.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Augustine fear that the pagan myths that he learned studying literature led to?

3. Why does Augustine believe it is not the motion of the heavenly bodies that determines the length of a day?

4. Why does he prefer that sect at that time in his life?

5. Who has Augustine already studied much?

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