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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What notion does Augustine attack?
(a) That if one studies diligently, one can come to understand how the world works.
(b) The idea of the innocence of childhood.
(c) That women are not equal to men.
(d) That there is no wrong behavior.

2. How does Augustine see Christianity as being deficient?
(a) It is too simplistic.
(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 doesn't promote change through violence or any means possible.

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

4. What happens when men act wickedly?
(a) They chose their will and not God's.
(b) They are punished either now or later.
(c) They do damage to their own soul.
(d) They enjoy evil passions.

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

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

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

8. What type of behavior is not tolerate in Rome?
(a) Showing no regard for one's parents.
(b) Spitting on the streets.
(c) Students who are disruptive.
(d) Refusing to stand when a teacher enters.

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

10. What happens to a friend who is ill and unconscious?
(a) They use leeches on him.
(b) His is exorcised.
(c) He has a miraculous recovery and outlives Augustine.
(d) He is baptized.

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

12. With what is Augustine preoccupied?
(a) Becoming holy.
(b) Learning languages.
(c) Taking a trip to the Holy Lands.
(d) Drama both on stage and in real life.

13. How does Augustine possibly cross the boundaries between friendship and sex?
(a) Having sex with the wives of male friends.
(b) Being friends with a woman and then seducing her under the guise of friendship.
(c) Being sexually involved with a male friend.
(d) He never confuses the two states of being.

14. What do the Manicheans believe when one their "Elect" digest food gifts?
(a) The Elect move forward on the wheel of time.
(b) Angels or spirits are released to the Manichean's benefit.
(c) The gifts' energy feeds the universe.
(d) The gift is transmuted into divine energy.

15. What is the Fables of Manes?
(a) A book written by Aesop.
(b) A book of the Manicheans.
(c) A book that tells how to care for horses.
(d) A book of fables about the creation of the earth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one of Augustine's greatest faults as a boy and young man?

2. What does Alypius finally give up doing?

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

4. Why do Augustine and his friends steal a pear?

5. With what is Augustine in love?

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