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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Preaching to the ends of the earth.
(c) Baptizing all who want to be, even Jews.
(d) Singing hymns in order to maintain their strength while protecting the church.

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

3. Who is Victorinus?
(a) A man who translates the Platonist texts into modern Greek.
(b) A man who translates the Platonist texts into Gaelic.
(c) A man who is studying the Greek gods with Augustine.
(d) A man who translates the Platonist texts into Latin.

4. What is one definition of evil?
(a) A perversity of the will and a turning against God.
(b) A decision to not follow one's own heart.
(c) A active pushing away of a child from the light.
(d) The absence of good intentions.

5. Instead of having a body, how does Augustine see God?
(a) As thought only.
(b) As having some sort of material substance.
(c) As spirit only.
(d) As vibration.

6. What is different between scripture and the books of the Platonists?
(a) They both challenge the idea of god, but the scritures first prove the existence of god.
(b) The scritures are older, but say the same things and have the same concept of god as the Platonists.
(c) Nothing except who authors them.
(d) God does not exist in the Platonists' books.

7. What is the heaven of heavens?
(a) The sky over heaven.
(b) The highest level of heaven to which man can rise.
(c) A place where God has his house and the angels and other beings are.
(d) The sky over the earth.

8. How does Augustine create his own image of the Heaven of Heavens?
(a) He draws a picture of it so he can visualize it.
(b) He knows he cannot create such a thing.
(c) He asks the Holy Spirit to show him heaven.
(d) He creates it in his own heart and mind.

9. From what is a human being, no matter how saintly, never fully free?
(a) Temptation.
(b) The need for sexual release.
(c) Anger.
(d) The past.

10. What differs for each individual and even at different periods of a person's life?
(a) Faith.
(b) The happy life.
(c) Memory.
(d) God.

11. How do the angels live in heaven?
(a) They don't live in heaven; they are man's helpmates on earth.
(b) In silence and awe.
(c) In joyful physicality.
(d) In chaste love.

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

13. What story does Augustine learn from a man named Firminus?
(a) Of how Jesus used the stars to predict events.
(b) Of the fact that twins always have the same fates.
(c) Of a time when astrology really was accurate.
(d) About the son of a rich man and the son of a slave are born at almost the exact same time, and under the same stars.

14. Why can there be more than one interpretation of a piece of scripture?
(a) Because it can have a surface meaning and a deeper meaning.
(b) Because it can mean different things in different cultures.
(c) Because it is applicable to man one way and to woman in a different way.
(d) Because God is infinte.

15. When does Augustine reject astrology?
(a) When it says he was to die when he was 28 and he doesn't.
(b) After speaking to an old man Vindicianus, and also due to the arguments of his friend Nebridius.
(c) When the stars show a pattern not predicted.
(d) When he studies his horoscope for a year and very little comes true.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom does Augustine return to Milan?

2. If two people both believe in the word of God, what can be fruitful?

3. How can memory make you unhappy?

4. What does Simplicianus say Victorinus has to do?

5. How does God create sky, water and earth?

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