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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the mind retain in memory?
(a) God.
(b) Love more than anything.
(c) Not just an image of an object, but all qualities of an object, the thing itself.
(d) Self.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

14. Though formlessness is close to nothing, it is not the same as what?
(a) Nothingness.
(b) Potential.
(c) Possibility.
(d) Hope.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom does Augustine return to Milan?

2. How does God create sky, water and earth?

3. Of what is Augustine reassured?

4. What does the story of Victorinus's conversion indicate to Augustine?

5. What does Augustine warn will happen if we move away from God's responsibility for the creation?

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