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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Upon what does Augustine reflect as to the nature of life and death?
(a) God controls all aspects of life and death.
(b) Life is only a cruel joke and death is the punchline.
(c) It is inevitable but only controlled by fate.
(d) Time passes, and people die, and that is the nature of things.

2. What is something Augustine finds very difficult to follow in real life?
(a) It is necessary to follow the word of God, and not even be tied down to one's own flesh.
(b) The Golden Rule.
(c) Monogamy.
(d) The precepts of the Manicheans.

3. What type of behavior is not tolerate in Rome?
(a) Showing no regard for one's parents.
(b) Students who are disruptive.
(c) Spitting on the streets.
(d) Refusing to stand when a teacher enters.

4. Instead of studying the literal meaning of a phrase what is important to study?
(a) The individual meanings of the words in the phrase.
(b) It is better not to study, but to pray for enlightment.
(c) The spirit and intent of the Scriptures.
(d) The implied meaning, though it is also literal.

5. Who leaves Augustine to return to Africa?
(a) His mistress of many years.
(b) His mother.
(c) Ambrose.
(d) His best friend Alypius.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does a Christian priest predict of Augustine?

2. With what is Augustine preoccupied?

3. Who writes Hortensius?

4. What does Augustine say about people like his mother, Monica?

5. What does Augustine find odd about Hortensius?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Monica feel about Augustine moving and how does he get around her?

2. Basically, what is Confessions about?

3. What type of religion ensnares Augustine's interest?

4. Why did one of Augustine's friends abandon Christianity and what happens after that?

5. What does Augustine believe about the men in the Bible and how does he apply that to people in general?

6. How do the questions Augustine have about God and the world affect his faith?

7. Where is Augustine a student in Carthage and why does he study so diligently?

8. What does Augustine fear about the effect of studying pagan myths when he was young?

9. How does Augustine feel about the Christianity he comes in contact with and what does he observe about the morals of Christians?

10. What does Augustine say about his "sins" as a schoolboy and his teachers reaction to them?

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