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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who has Augustine already studied much?
(a) The Platonists and their natural philosophy.
(b) The Greek gods.
(c) The Gnostics.
(d) The development of Chrisitanity in Britian.

2. What is another name for the wisdom of God?
(a) Being.
(b) There is not name for God's wisdom; it is ineffable.
(c) Creation.
(d) The Holy Spirit.

3. If two people both believe in the word of God, what can be fruitful?
(a) Agreement.
(b) Debate about interpretations.
(c) Witnessing to a third.
(d) Compromise on interpretation.

4. What makes it easy for Augustine to quit his job?
(a) He has been suffering from overwork.
(b) The dean is not happy with him.
(c) He feels God paving the way.
(d) He has not been very popular with the students.

5. What does Augustine wonder about concerning God before creation?
(a) If God created himself at the same time as creation.
(b) If God creates god and Satan creates evil at the same time to cancel each other out.
(c) If God really created everything.
(d) If God existed doing nothing.

6. How can memory make you unhappy?
(a) By remembering something in the past which disgusts you now.
(b) Thinking about what might have been.
(c) Remembering the slights of others and feeling resentful.
(d) Not letting go of the negative emotion with a memory.

7. What does Augustine warn will happen if we move away from God's responsibility for the creation?
(a) We imply creation is an illusion.
(b) We assume responsibility ourselves for creation.
(c) We then hand over responsibility for creation to Lucifer.
(d) We are moving away from reality, since God is the creator of all things.

8. What is non-existent except when it is the present?
(a) The past and future.
(b) God.
(c) Life.
(d) Happiness.

9. What does the study of the Platonist do for his study of Christian scripture?
(a) Intensifies it.
(b) Compliments it.
(c) Refutes it.
(d) Agrees in some places and is diametrically different in others.

10. To what does Augustine come to think the predictions of astrologists are due?
(a) A misunderstanding of astronomy.
(b) A weakness of the brain.
(c) Purely a matter of chance, plus taking into account a person's condition, wealth, and circumstances.
(d) Making the predictions so general, they can apply to almost anyone.

11. Besides concrete detail, what else does the mind remember?
(a) Ideas.
(b) Feelings.
(c) Dates.
(d) Nothing.

12. Of what is Augustine reassured?
(a) That he does not have to give up his philosophical and scientific inquiries.
(b) That God is just waiting on him.
(c) That the end does indeed justify the means.
(d) That Jesus loves him.

13. What does the faithful begin doing under the guidance of Ambrose?
(a) Trying to convert servants in the palace to maybe reach Justina eventually.
(b) Baptizing all who want to be, even Jews.
(c) Preaching to the ends of the earth.
(d) Singing hymns in order to maintain their strength while protecting the church.

14. What happens to Verecundus before his death?
(a) He is ex-communicated.
(b) He converts to Manicheanism.
(c) He is baptized.
(d) He has a vision of angels hovering around him.

15. Before the Heavens and the Earth existed what does Augustine say did not exist?
(a) Cycles of the sun, the moon, or the planets.
(b) Evil.
(c) Love.
(d) Everything.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the mind retain in memory?

2. From what does Augustine decide to withdraw?

3. What books bring a change to Augustine's thinking?

4. What question does Augustine ask?

5. Why is Augustine angry with the Manicheans?

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