2. What does Augustine warn will happen if we move away from God's responsibility for the creation?
(a) We then hand over responsibility for creation to Lucifer.
(b) We assume responsibility ourselves for creation.
(c) We are moving away from reality, since God is the creator of all things.
(d) We imply creation is an illusion.

3. What phrase does Augustine use as an example of different interpretations?
(a) "The word became God."
(b) "Nothing that was made."
(c) "In the beginning."
(d) "The word was God."

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

5. How do men receive reflected wisdom from God?
(a) By saying a mantra over and over.
(b) By the enlightenment of the Holy Spirit.
(c) By thinking about the words in the bible.
(d) By meditation.

6. Why can there be more than one interpretation of a piece of scripture?
(a) Because it can mean different things in different cultures.
(b) Because it can have a surface meaning and a deeper meaning.
(c) Because it is applicable to man one way and to woman in a different way.
(d) Because God is infinte.

7. From what does Augustine decide to withdraw?
(a) From his reading of philosophy.
(b) From the Catholic church.
(c) From his mistress.
(d) From his teaching position.

8. How does God create sky, water and earth?
(a) From formless matter.
(b) From molecules of form that he rearranges.
(c) From thought.
(d) From the formless part of self.

9. What does the Roman empress Justina favor?
(a) The Greek gods over those of the Romans.
(b) The Pope over the Greek gods.
(c) The Arian heresy over Christianity.
(d) Celtic gods.

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

11. What does the story of Victorinus's conversion indicate to Augustine?
(a) The deep compatibility between Platonic philosophy and Catholic Christianity.
(b) The lengths Christians will go to to save a soul.
(c) That it is never to late to change.
(d) That a man wiser than Augustine chose it, so it would be right for Augustine.

12. If two people both believe in the word of God, what can be fruitful?
(a) Agreement.
(b) Compromise on interpretation.
(c) Debate about interpretations.
(d) Witnessing to a third.

13. What does the study of the Platonist do for his study of Christian scripture?
(a) Refutes it.
(b) Compliments it.
(c) Agrees in some places and is diametrically different in others.
(d) Intensifies it.

14. Who is buried near the Tiber River?
(a) Justina.
(b) Augustine.
(c) Ambrose.
(d) Monica.

15. 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) They would cancel each other out and there would be nothing.
(c) The darkness would cover up the light and there would therefore be no light.
(d) God would destroy the kingdom of darkness.