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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Augustine resent about his studies of Latin and Greek literature?
(a) How he was led astray morally by some of the stories.
(b) How it alienates him from his classmates.
(c) How it took up so much of his youth.
(d) How the teachers thought they were so important.

3. What does Augustine find odd about Hortensius?
(a) He is a very religious man.
(b) It is very strongly biased towards Christianity.
(c) It does not promote any religion or sect.
(d) It is written in Hebrew.

4. Who is Fautus?
(a) The Pope's Secretary.
(b) Archbishop of Carthage.
(c) A character in a play by Cicero.
(d) Bishop of the Manicheans.

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

6. Upon what does Augustine wonder?
(a) If his father was truly moral.
(b) If his mother wanted him to become a philosopher.
(c) Whether Jesus really existed.
(d) The lack of even the basic morality of observance of the Ten Commandments in his vicinity.

7. What is Ambrose's intent about his preferences at the tombs?
(a) To promote restraint and moral behavior.
(b) To keep people from getting too joyful.
(c) To promote a higher spiritual communion.
(d) To keep the wrong kind of people out.

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

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

10. In what way does God work?
(a) In ways that are lofty.
(b) In ways that are perfectly logical.
(c) Mysterious ways.
(d) In a roundabout way.

11. Where does Monica want Augustine to be?
(a) In Rome.
(b) In Florence.
(c) In the Vatican.
(d) In Carthage and Africa.

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

13. Why does Augustine read books of rhetoric?
(a) He is pleasing his father.
(b) To make a name for himself.
(c) He is required to do so.
(d) He wants to learn to argue like they do.

14. When does Augustine believe a person starts sinning?
(a) At puberty.
(b) Never.
(c) Right at infancy.
(d) When one becomes married.

15. At one point, what does Augustine believe about evil?
(a) That it doesn't exist.
(b) That it is just one aspect of God.
(c) That it is as powerful a force as God.
(d) That it is an independant force.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Augustine say about people like his mother, Monica?

2. What happens when men act wickedly?

3. What is Augustine's native language?

4. Why does Augustine wish his family had arranged a marriage for him?

5. For what is the stealing of the pear a metaphor?

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