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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What question does Augustine ask?
(a) Why have I been placed on this earth.
(b) How can I know I am going to heaven?
(c) What does it mean to love God?
(d) How does Jesus, a dead person, know me.

2. What is an argument that Augustine learns from his friend Nebridius?
(a) That evil is only the imagination of man.
(b) That evil is created to draw man to God.
(c) If the darkness could harm God, he wouldn't be the Almighty God.
(d) That light is all that is and therefore dark is nothing.

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

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

5. Which of Augustine's friends laughed at predicting the future through stargazing?
(a) Neferdata.
(b) Nebridius.
(c) Serpius.
(d) Archemenon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Augustine begin to understand from studying the books in question 104?

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

3. What does the mind retain in memory?

4. Who is Adeodatus?

5. What do we remember when we are sad?

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