View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. To whom is Augustine married?
(a) He is not married as he has taken a vow of celibacy.
(b) A woman who is pregnant by him.
(c) A woman of high birth who is poor.
(d) He is not married by in a monogamous relationship.

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

4. At the beginning of this book, where is Augustine a student?
(a) School of Rhetoric in Carthage.
(b) He is out of school.
(c) Lysortium Rhetorium in Rome.
(d) School of Philosophy in Athens.

5. Which of Augustine's friends laughed at predicting the future through stargazing?
(a) Archemenon.
(b) Serpius.
(c) Neferdata.
(d) Nebridius.

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

7. What is a flaw in the book in number 70?
(a) It has only one premise and no synthesis.
(b) It uses poor logic.
(c) It ignores the possibility of God's existence.
(d) It's thesis is flawed.

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

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

10. What is better to seek after than earthly pleasures?
(a) To be kind to all.
(b) Heaven through being an ascetic.
(c) Marriage and propagating as God commanded.
(d) Joyful living with God.

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

12. Why does Augustine want to move to Rome?
(a) He wants to study Roman law.
(b) He has heard the students are more disciplined there.
(c) He wants to go to a milder climate.
(d) He wants to be near the Pope.

13. Who does Augustine arrange to marry?
(a) A girl who is two years underage.
(b) No one; he decides to never marry.
(c) A woman he knew from childhood.
(d) A woman he meets there in Milan who is a teacher also.

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

15. What does a Christian priest predict of Augustine?
(a) He will become a great defender of the Greek gods.
(b) He will never live long enough to repent.
(c) He will die in his sins.
(d) He will change and convert to Christianity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sect does Augustine prefer?

2. What does Augustine call his living arrangement?

3. Why does Augustine get in trouble?

4. What do the Manicheans believe when one their "Elect" digest food gifts?

5. By what does Augustine feel overwhelmed?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 646 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample