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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Augustine's position in his circle of friends?
(a) A leader.
(b) A follower.
(c) He is a loner.
(d) Someone on the fringes.

2. What about Augustine are both of his parents proud?
(a) His kindness.
(b) His appeal to women.
(c) His wit.
(d) His intellect.

3. What do the Manicheans believe about man's soul?
(a) Every man has a soul of light, good, and a soul of darkness.
(b) Women have souls but men do not.
(c) Men have souls but women do not.
(d) Man does not have a soul.

4. Who writes Hortensius?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Plato.
(c) Cicero.
(d) Homer.

5. In what does Augustine try to be honest?
(a) In paying his taxes to Rome.
(b) In telling his parents about his life.
(c) In the various competitions in which he participates.
(d) In how he teaches.

6. Why does Augustine write the confessions?
(a) For his final project in school.
(b) By order of the Pope.
(c) In order to show his sincerity to be admitted to a monk order.
(d) To find out the sources of his errors earlier in life and also to encourage the faithful in seeking truth and knowledge of God.

7. What does Augustine fabricate in order to be accepted by his peers?
(a) Stories of sexual conquests.
(b) Stories of the wealth of his family.
(c) Stories about meeting the Emperor.
(d) Stories of his sisters' beauty.

8. With what is Augustine in love?
(a) With being in love.
(b) With himself.
(c) With vice.
(d) With violence.

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

10. What happens when men act wickedly?
(a) They do damage to their own soul.
(b) They are punished either now or later.
(c) They chose their will and not God's.
(d) They enjoy evil passions.

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

12. What do the Manicheans believe when one their "Elect" digest food gifts?
(a) The Elect move forward on the wheel of time.
(b) The gifts' energy feeds the universe.
(c) Angels or spirits are released to the Manichean's benefit.
(d) The gift is transmuted into divine energy.

13. How does Augustine leave Carthage and his mother?
(a) With her disowning him.
(b) He pretends to just be seeing a friend off at the docks but gets on a ship, too.
(c) By sneaking away while his mother is in Athens.
(d) With his mother's blessings.

14. Why does Augustine read books of rhetoric?
(a) He is pleasing his father.
(b) To make a name for himself.
(c) He is required to do so.
(d) He wants to learn to argue like they do.

15. What is the meaning of the phrase that God creates man in his own image?
(a) That man needed God's image and woman don't as they are already pure.
(b) It means God creates only man; woman already existed.
(c) That God has a physical body very much like that of a man.
(d) It is a metaphor referring to the Godlike attributes of man being also a creative and reasoning creature.

Short Answer Questions

1. Upon what does Augustine reflect as to the nature of life and death?

2. How does Augustine see Christianity as being deficient?

3. What sort of philosophy does Augustine have?

4. Why should Monica think Rome is a good place for Augustine?

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

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