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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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."

4. What indicates that Augustine is not quite ready to fully embrace the way of being a priest of Christianity?
(a) He still goes to the houses of "ill repute."
(b) He has not yet divorced his wife.
(c) He still has a mistress.
(d) He still attends Manichean rites.

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

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

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

8. With whom does Augustine return to Milan?
(a) With his wife.
(b) With his mother.
(c) With his friend Alypius.
(d) No one.

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

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

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

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

13. How do men receive reflected wisdom from God?
(a) By the enlightenment of the Holy Spirit.
(b) By saying a mantra over and over.
(c) By thinking about the words in the bible.
(d) By meditation.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the mind retain in memory?

2. In the Manichean doctrine, what does light and darkness represent?

3. Why can there be more than one interpretation of a piece of scripture?

4. What does Augustine want to measure?

5. When does Augustine reject astrology?

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