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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to a friend who is ill and unconscious?
(a) He has a miraculous recovery and outlives Augustine.
(b) His is exorcised.
(c) They use leeches on him.
(d) He is baptized.

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

3. Why does he prefer that sect at that time in his life?
(a) Because it seemed more logical.
(b) Because it was simple.
(c) Because it fit in better with his lifestyle at that time.
(d) Because it did not ask much of him.

4. Why is Augustine's father is willing to shoulder large financial burdens?
(a) To give his wife a luxurious lifestyle.
(b) To have large doweries for his daughters.
(c) To have servants to care for his children.
(d) To help Augustine succeed.

5. What motivates Augustine's decision to become a philosopher?
(a) His father's desire for him to do so.
(b) The money philosophers make in those days.
(c) The power to change people.
(d) Pride at being smarter than many other of his peers.

6. What does Augustine fear that the pagan myths that he learned studying literature led to?
(a) A lack of faith in the true God.
(b) His personal corruption.
(c) A slovenly attitude towards studying.
(d) Being unable to pray for years.

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

8. How does Augustine change his view of evil?
(a) He sees that evil is caused by corruption and lack of good.
(b) He believes evil is created by God and can be annihilated by God.
(c) He sees there is not such thing as evil.
(d) He sees that evil only exists as a concept and is not real.

9. What is one of Augustine's future struggles in life?
(a) If he should take vows with the church.
(b) To allow those he love to walk their own path.
(c) To have the spirit of truth and faith to inform his and others' good deeds.
(d) Whether to marry his childhood sweetheart and enter into sins of the flesh.

10. Who joins Augustus in Milan?
(a) His brother.
(b) No one.
(c) His wife.
(d) His mother.

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

12. Why is Augustine unable to believe in Jesus?
(a) He thinks Jesus is too good to be true.
(b) He thinks Christ would be defiled by being born of the Virgin Mary.
(c) He thinks it is impossible for God to be also human.
(d) He thinks Jesus wasn't a real person.

13. How does Augustine view the holy men of the Bible?
(a) As not entirely righteous.
(b) As too righteous to ever emulate.
(c) As delusional.
(d) As terribly flawed.

14. Why do Augustine and his friends steal a pear?
(a) Because there is a beggar who is starving and they give it to him.
(b) Because the owner of the fruit trees had insulted them.
(c) Because they are hungry students.
(d) For the pure pleasure of thievery.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What notion does Augustine attack?

2. Who is Fautus?

3. Why doesn't Ambrose want wine brought to the tombs?

4. In what way does God work?

5. How could Augustine's "journey" be categorized?

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