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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of a book Augustine wrote that he later lost?
(a) "The Fitting Way of Life and Death."
(b) "The Beautiful Fits All Souls."
(c) "Fitting One's Soul in the Earthly Physical Life."
(d) "The Beautiful and the Fitting."

2. For what is there always a rationale?
(a) Making money.
(b) Studying esoteric philosophies.
(c) Sin.
(d) Going to Rome.

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

4. Why doesn't Ambrose want wine brought to the tombs?
(a) It will ferment more and create bad smells.
(b) He doesn't mind wine at the tombs.
(c) It encourages sloth.
(d) It may encourage drunkeness.

5. What interests Augustine more than higher goals or values?
(a) Intellectual knowledge.
(b) Wealth.
(c) Success and fame.
(d) Love and friendship.

6. 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.

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

8. What sort of philosophy does Augustine have?
(a) Fundamentalist.
(b) Materialistic.
(c) Spiritual.
(d) Hedonist.

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

10. Though Augustine is proficient in learning the sciences and philosophy of his time what is he unable to formulate?
(a) A way to merge Manichean and Chrisitan philosophies.
(b) A personal belief system.
(c) A personal moral system on the use of knowledge.
(d) How the Manichean thought system can be used in the area of mathematics.

11. Where does Augustine go to study?
(a) Carthage.
(b) The Vatican.
(c) Florence.
(d) Rome.

12. At what age does Augustine decide to become a philosopher?
(a) 33.
(b) 25.
(c) 19.
(d) 16.

13. What does Augustine feel when he reads of Zeus engaging in fornication and being powerful?
(a) Indifferent.
(b) Curious as to why a god would do that.
(c) He wants to do these deeds.
(d) Repulsed.

14. Who does Augustine meet in Milan?
(a) Bishop Ambrose.
(b) Archbishop Marlowe.
(c) Bishop John Paul.
(d) Friar Tuck.

15. What does Augustine struggle to learn in school?
(a) To be humble when he knows more than the teachers.
(b) To learn the rules of mathematics.
(c) To get along well with his classmates.
(d) To learn Latin grammar and works by Virgil, such as the Aeneid.

Short Answer Questions

1. Into what has St. Augustine sunk?

2. What is Augustine's native language?

3. What does Augustine refuse?

4. Which of Augustine's friends laughed at predicting the future through stargazing?

5. Instead of studying the literal meaning of a phrase what is important to study?

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