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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Where does Augustine go to study?
(a) Florence.
(b) The Vatican.
(c) Carthage.
(d) Rome.
2. How does Augustine possibly cross the boundaries between friendship and sex?
(a) Having sex with the wives of male friends.
(b) He never confuses the two states of being.
(c) Being friends with a woman and then seducing her under the guise of friendship.
(d) Being sexually involved with a male friend.
3. With what is Augustine preoccupied?
(a) Learning languages.
(b) Taking a trip to the Holy Lands.
(c) Drama both on stage and in real life.
(d) Becoming holy.
4. What is Ambrose's intent about his preferences at the tombs?
(a) To promote a higher spiritual communion.
(b) To promote restraint and moral behavior.
(c) To keep the wrong kind of people out.
(d) To keep people from getting too joyful.
5. 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 is a metaphor referring to the Godlike attributes of man being also a creative and reasoning creature.
(c) It means God creates only man; woman already existed.
(d) That God has a physical body very much like that of a man.
6. What does Hortensius promote?
(a) Hedonistic living.
(b) Violence for change.
(c) Belief in oneself.
(d) The general goal of seeking the truth.
7. What does Alypius finally give up doing?
(a) Sex outside of marriage.
(b) Following the Manichean sect.
(c) Watching the gladiator and circus games.
(d) Studying Buddhism.
8. In what way does God work?
(a) In ways that are lofty.
(b) In ways that are perfectly logical.
(c) In a roundabout way.
(d) Mysterious ways.
9. What happens to a friend who is ill and unconscious?
(a) They use leeches on him.
(b) He is baptized.
(c) He has a miraculous recovery and outlives Augustine.
(d) His is exorcised.
10. Who is Adeodatus?
(a) Augustine's current rhetoric teacher.
(b) Augustine's brother.
(c) Augustine's cousin.
(d) Augustine's son.
11. What is one of Augustine's greatest faults as a boy and young man?
(a) He really had few faults, not too bad.
(b) Overly diligent.
(c) Too serious.
(d) Pride.
12. Besides thievery, in what is Augustine involved?
(a) Gambling.
(b) Cheating on his exams.
(c) Murder.
(d) Pranks.
13. How does Augustine see Christianity as being deficient?
(a) It is too improbable.
(b) It fails to impress Augustine with its superior viewpoint to the many other religions and sects available.
(c) It is too simplistic.
(d) It doesn't promote change through violence or any means possible.
14. Why does he prefer that sect at that time in his life?
(a) Because it did not ask much of him.
(b) Because it seemed more logical.
(c) Because it fit in better with his lifestyle at that time.
(d) Because it was simple.
15. To whom was the book he lost dedicated?
(a) His wife.
(b) Hiereus.
(c) Monica, his mother.
(d) Disenyum.
Short Answer Questions
1. By what does Augustine feel overwhelmed?
2. Who joins Augustus in Milan?
3. What motivates Augustine's decision to become a philosopher?
4. What do the Manicheans believe when one their "Elect" digest food gifts?
5. What is the name of a book Augustine wrote that he later lost?
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