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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Into what can the devil make himself?
(a) An angel of light (Lucifer) who is evil.
(b) A reasonable temptation.
(c) An average human.
(d) A minor deity.

2. Upon what does Augustine reflect as to the nature of life and death?
(a) It is inevitable but only controlled by fate.
(b) Life is only a cruel joke and death is the punchline.
(c) God controls all aspects of life and death.
(d) Time passes, and people die, and that is the nature of things.

3. What does Augustine call his living arrangement?
(a) The best of both worlds.
(b) A marriage made in heaven.
(c) A temporary truce with lust.
(d) An arrangement of convenience based on lust.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What sort of philosophy does Augustine have?

2. What question does Augustine ask?

3. To what does Augustine come to think the predictions of astrologists are due?

4. What differs for each individual and even at different periods of a person's life?

5. What do the Manicheans believe when one their "Elect" digest food gifts?

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