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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Augustine see as his responsibility?
(a) Teaching Jesus's gospel.
(b) All his actions.
(c) Learning the commandments of God.
(d) Preaching to the heathen.

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

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

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

5. 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 chaste love.
(d) In joyful physicality.

6. 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.

7. Before the Heavens and the Earth existed what does Augustine say did not exist?
(a) Love.
(b) Evil.
(c) Cycles of the sun, the moon, or the planets.
(d) Everything.

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

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

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

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

12. 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.

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

14. 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.

15. What does Augustine warn will happen if we move away from God's responsibility for the creation?
(a) We assume responsibility ourselves for creation.
(b) We are moving away from reality, since God is the creator of all things.
(c) We imply creation is an illusion.
(d) We then hand over responsibility for creation to Lucifer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What must one avoid in interpreting the scriptures?

2. What differs for each individual and even at different periods of a person's life?

3. What happens to Verecundus before his death?

4. Why is Augustine angry with the Manicheans?

5. How does Augustine create his own image of the Heaven of Heavens?

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