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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 minor deity.
(c) An average human.
(d) A reasonable temptation.

2. What is the name of a book Augustine wrote that he later lost?
(a) "Fitting One's Soul in the Earthly Physical Life."
(b) "The Beautiful and the Fitting."
(c) "The Beautiful Fits All Souls."
(d) "The Fitting Way of Life and Death."

3. To whom is Augustine married?
(a) A woman of high birth who is poor.
(b) He is not married as he has taken a vow of celibacy.
(c) He is not married by in a monogamous relationship.
(d) A woman who is pregnant by him.

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

5. Though Augustine is proficient in learning the sciences and philosophy of his time what is he unable to formulate?
(a) A personal belief system.
(b) A personal moral system on the use of knowledge.
(c) How the Manichean thought system can be used in the area of mathematics.
(d) A way to merge Manichean and Chrisitan philosophies.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to a friend who is ill and unconscious?

2. Why does Augustine publish his Confessions?

3. What is different between scripture and the books of the Platonists?

4. What is one definition of evil?

5. What does Augustine refuse?

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