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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Adeodatus?
(a) Augustine's cousin.
(b) Augustine's current rhetoric teacher.
(c) Augustine's brother.
(d) Augustine's son.

2. 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.

3. What does Augustine call his living arrangement?
(a) The best of both worlds.
(b) An arrangement of convenience based on lust.
(c) A marriage made in heaven.
(d) A temporary truce with lust.

4. How does Augustine see Christianity as being deficient?
(a) It fails to impress Augustine with its superior viewpoint to the many other religions and sects available.
(b) It is too simplistic.
(c) It is too improbable.
(d) It doesn't promote change through violence or any means possible.

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

6. What sect does Augustine prefer?
(a) Gnostics.
(b) Manachean.
(c) Judain.
(d) Hermite.

7. By what does Augustine feel overwhelmed?
(a) By the task set before him by God.
(b) By his inability to corrupt his friends faith.
(c) By his friend's miraculous recovery.
(d) By the power of sin and death.

8. In what is Augustine particularly interested?
(a) The ways religion all led to the same place.
(b) The history of the world.
(c) The importance of a person's intentions.
(d) How he can become successful in the church.

9. 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.

10. How long as Augustine been a member of the Manichean sect when he is 29?
(a) 9 years.
(b) 3 years.
(c) 19 years.
(d) 1 year.

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

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

13. Why does Augustine find a woman to live with him while his fiance is too young?
(a) He wants to provide a home for this woman until she has his baby.
(b) He cannot stand to be without a woman.
(c) He is soft hearted and she needs a home.
(d) He thinks a man should always have a woman to show him the right way to live.

14. What does Augustine refuse?
(a) His mother's suggestion that he leave Carthage.
(b) A woman's offer of marriage.
(c) His best friend's position at the college.
(d) Animal sacrifice for help.

15. 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) A slovenly attitude towards studying.
(c) Being unable to pray for years.
(d) His personal corruption.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the beginning of this book, where is Augustine a student?

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

3. What drives Augustine farther away from thoughts of God?

4. Who leaves Augustine to return to Africa?

5. What is one of Augustine's future struggles in life?

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