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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Augustine think would happen if there was really a kingdom of light versus a kingdom of darkness?
(a) They would cancel each other out and there would be nothing.
(b) God would destroy the kingdom of darkness.
(c) The light would outshine the dark and there could then be no dark.
(d) The darkness would cover up the light and there would therefore be no light.

2. What can the mind remember though it doesn't exist anymore?
(a) Birth.
(b) The past.
(c) One's past deaths.
(d) Nothing.

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

4. Why does Augustine publish his Confessions?
(a) To see if there were others out there like him.
(b) To earn some money.
(c) To convert pagans.
(d) So the public to know what he once was and what he is now after his Christian conversion.

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

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

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

8. 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.

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

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

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

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

13. How does Augustine define formlessness?
(a) As ineffable.
(b) As substance to be wrought by the thought of God.
(c) As close to nothing, but capable of receiving form.
(d) As everything.

14. How does Victorinus become a Christian?
(a) By asking for a revelation from Jesus.
(b) By seeing how joyful Christians are.
(c) By realizing the simple logic of the Christian doctrine.
(d) By studying the Christian Scriptures.

15. What phrase does Augustine use as an example of different interpretations?
(a) "Nothing that was made."
(b) "The word was God."
(c) "The word became God."
(d) "In the beginning."

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is Victorinus?

3. What happens to Verecundus before his death?

4. Before the Heavens and the Earth existed what does Augustine say did not exist?

5. From what is a human being, no matter how saintly, never fully free?

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