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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What drives Augustine farther away from thoughts of God?
(a) Sexual adventures.
(b) Being a soldier.
(c) Studying the Greek philosophers.
(d) Making money.

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

5. Why is Augustine unable to believe in Jesus?
(a) He thinks Jesus is too good to be true.
(b) He thinks it is impossible for God to be also human.
(c) He thinks Christ would be defiled by being born of the Virgin Mary.
(d) He thinks Jesus wasn't a real person.

6. What is Augustine thinking of doing?
(a) Moving back to Carthage.
(b) Marrying.
(c) Taking vows as a monk.
(d) Going on a mission to Britain.

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

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

9. At what age does Augustine decide to become a philosopher?
(a) 25.
(b) 19.
(c) 33.
(d) 16.

10. How is Augustine a paradox within himself?
(a) He sins and yet tells others not to sin.
(b) He wants to do good but does evil instead.
(c) He loves a woman and hates her at the same time.
(d) He sees a play and feels both sorrow and pleasure in witnessing the suffering.

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

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

13. How could Augustine's "journey" be categorized?
(a) From rags to riches.
(b) From riches to rags.
(c) From prison to ruling a country.
(d) From one of being a sinful youth to becoming a great investigator of the truth and of the nature of God.

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Augustine change his view of evil?

2. Who joins Augustus in Milan?

3. In what way does God work?

4. Into what has St. Augustine sunk?

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

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