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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Augustine begin to understand from studying the books in question 104?
(a) That corruption is a result of poor choices.
(b) That God does not look at an evil man.
(c) That evil cannot pass through the veil
(d) That evil is a result of ignorance and corruption of the good.

2. Why is Augustine angry with the Manicheans?
(a) They changed a very important part of their creed.
(b) They ex-communicated him.
(c) They had provided him with an excuse for his behavior for so long.
(d) He is not angry with them.

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

4. What books bring a change to Augustine's thinking?
(a) The Illiad and Odyssey.
(b) Grendal and the Four Horsemen.
(c) Books of the Platonists.
(d) Books of the disciples of Socrates.

5. What does Augustine refuse?
(a) His mother's suggestion that he leave Carthage.
(b) A woman's offer of marriage.
(c) His best friend's position at the college.
(d) Animal sacrifice for help.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is buried near the Tiber River?

2. Instead of learning Christian stories, what does Augustine learn?

3. Where does Augustine go to study?

4. In what does Augustine try to be honest?

5. At the beginning of this book, where is Augustine a student?

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