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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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 thinks a man should always have a woman to show him the right way to live.
(d) He is soft hearted and she needs a home.

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

5. What book does Augustine understand that challenges many people?
(a) The Categorical Allusion.
(b) The Ten Comandments of Manichean Life.
(c) The Categories that Govern the Stars.
(d) The Ten Categories.

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

7. Who leaves Augustine to return to Africa?
(a) Ambrose.
(b) His best friend Alypius.
(c) His mistress of many years.
(d) His mother.

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

9. What does Hortensius promote?
(a) Violence for change.
(b) Belief in oneself.
(c) The general goal of seeking the truth.
(d) Hedonistic living.

10. Who joins Augustus in Milan?
(a) His brother.
(b) His wife.
(c) His mother.
(d) No one.

11. Instead of studying the literal meaning of a phrase what is important to study?
(a) The implied meaning, though it is also literal.
(b) It is better not to study, but to pray for enlightment.
(c) The individual meanings of the words in the phrase.
(d) The spirit and intent of the Scriptures.

12. Why should Monica think Rome is a good place for Augustine?
(a) Because he is close to the heart of Christianity.
(b) His asthma will benefit by the dry air.
(c) He can see the wages of sin of the Roman Empire.
(d) He might meet the Pope.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. For what is there always a rationale?

2. With what is Augustine in love?

3. Upon what does Augustine wonder?

4. How does Augustine change his view of evil?

5. What does Augustine struggle to learn in school?

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