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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does not signal the end of Augustine's struggles?
(a) His study of the Old Testament.
(b) His acceptance of the existence of both good and evil.
(c) Giving up his materialistic desires.
(d) His Christian faith.

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

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

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

6. Who is buried near the Tiber River?
(a) Augustine.
(b) Monica.
(c) Justina.
(d) Ambrose.

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

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

9. 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.

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

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

12. What do we remember when we are sad?
(a) Love.
(b) The past.
(c) Happiness.
(d) God.

13. What does scripture not discuss?
(a) Why God creates.
(b) How to be creators also.
(c) The creation of mankind.
(d) The creation of formless matter.

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

15. Why is Augustine angry with the Manicheans?
(a) He is not angry with them.
(b) They ex-communicated him.
(c) They had provided him with an excuse for his behavior for so long.
(d) They changed a very important part of their creed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Roman empress Justina favor?

2. Beyond what is memory?

3. What does Augustine wonder about concerning God before creation?

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

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

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