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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do we remember when we are sad?
(a) The past.
(b) God.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Love.

3. Besides concrete detail, what else does the mind remember?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Dates.
(c) Ideas.
(d) Feelings.

4. Why does Augustine publish his Confessions?
(a) To see if there were others out there like him.
(b) So the public to know what he once was and what he is now after his Christian conversion.
(c) To earn some money.
(d) To convert pagans.

5. What does Augustine think would happen if there was really a kingdom of light versus a kingdom of darkness?
(a) The light would outshine the dark and there could then be no dark.
(b) The darkness would cover up the light and there would therefore be no light.
(c) They would cancel each other out and there would be nothing.
(d) God would destroy the kingdom of darkness.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of Augustine's friends laughed at predicting the future through stargazing?

2. What is something Augustine finds very difficult to follow in real life?

3. What does Augustine teach?

4. How can memory make you unhappy?

5. What is a flaw in the book in number 70?

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