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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Augustus go for the Vintage holiday?
(a) To Britian.
(b) To Florence.
(c) To a country retreat estate in Cassiciacum.
(d) To Carthage.

2. What does the Roman empress Justina favor?
(a) The Arian heresy over Christianity.
(b) Celtic gods.
(c) The Pope over the Greek gods.
(d) The Greek gods over those of the Romans.

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

4. In the Manichean doctrine, what does light and darkness represent?
(a) Morality and immorality.
(b) The way and the non-way.
(c) The smooth path and the rocky path.
(d) Good and evil.

5. As time goes on, what happens to the future?
(a) The future passes the point of the present, and is consumed, becoming the past.
(b) It recedes into non-existence.
(c) It moves farther into the future.
(d) It was never real so nothing happens to it.

6. What does Simplicianus tell Augustine Victorinus does before his recent passing?
(a) Converted to Christianity.
(b) Converts to the Manichean sect.
(c) Prophesizes that Augustine will be a lion of God.
(d) Prophesizes that Augustine will die in sin.

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

8. Into what can the devil make himself?
(a) An angel of light (Lucifer) who is evil.
(b) A reasonable temptation.
(c) A minor deity.
(d) An average human.

9. What question does Augustine ask?
(a) How can I know I am going to heaven?
(b) What does it mean to love God?
(c) How does Jesus, a dead person, know me.
(d) Why have I been placed on this earth.

10. What is different between scripture and the books of the Platonists?
(a) God does not exist in the Platonists' books.
(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) They both challenge the idea of god, but the scritures first prove the existence of god.

11. What concept does Augustine have difficult understanding?
(a) That God has no body but loves man who does.
(b) That Christ is the same as others but more enlightened.
(c) That Christ is God and has a body.
(d) That God has emotions.

12. Beyond what is memory?
(a) Mere memory of sensory impressions and bodily touch.
(b) Life.
(c) Oneness with God.
(d) Death.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the faithful begin doing under the guidance of Ambrose?

2. How do men receive reflected wisdom from God?

3. How can things deeply hidden in memory be recalled?

4. Besides concrete detail, what else does the mind remember?

5. How do the angels live in heaven?

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