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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Augustine say about people like his mother, Monica?
(a) That though righteous, she did not always have the best of intentions.
(b) That she was the only one whose intentions were always best for Augustine.
(c) That she led him astray through her wantoness.
(d) That she had very little influence on him.

5. Why does Augustine get in trouble?
(a) He follows his friends who are smarter than he.
(b) He is angry with his father.
(c) He has no discipline.
(d) He believes he deserves a better life.

6. Upon what does Augustine reflect as to the nature of life and death?
(a) Life is only a cruel joke and death is the punchline.
(b) Time passes, and people die, and that is the nature of things.
(c) It is inevitable but only controlled by fate.
(d) God controls all aspects of life and death.

7. What is something Augustine finds very difficult to follow in real life?
(a) It is necessary to follow the word of God, and not even be tied down to one's own flesh.
(b) Monogamy.
(c) The Golden Rule.
(d) The precepts of the Manicheans.

8. What is Augustine's native language?
(a) Greek.
(b) Gaelic.
(c) Latin.
(d) German.

9. What author does Augustine dislike?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Plato.
(c) Virgil.
(d) Homer.

10. 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) That God has a physical body very much like that of a man.
(c) It is a metaphor referring to the Godlike attributes of man being also a creative and reasoning creature.
(d) It means God creates only man; woman already existed.

11. What does Augustine teach?
(a) Theology.
(b) Painting and architecture.
(c) Algebra and Calculus.
(d) Liberal arts and rhetoric.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Augustine refuse?

2. Why is Augustine unable to believe in Jesus?

3. What sect does Augustine prefer?

4. At one point, what does Augustine believe about evil?

5. What motivates Augustine's decision to become a philosopher?

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