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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the faithful begin doing under the guidance of Ambrose?
(a) Preaching to the ends of the earth.
(b) Singing hymns in order to maintain their strength while protecting the church.
(c) Trying to convert servants in the palace to maybe reach Justina eventually.
(d) Baptizing all who want to be, even Jews.

2. What does Augustine begin to understand from studying the books in question 104?
(a) That evil cannot pass through the veil
(b) That evil is a result of ignorance and corruption of the good.
(c) That God does not look at an evil man.
(d) That corruption is a result of poor choices.

3. Who accompanies Augustine for the holiday?
(a) His wife.
(b) His friend Alypius and his mother Monica.
(c) Septimus.
(d) No one.

4. What is non-existent except when it is the present?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Life.
(c) The past and future.
(d) God.

5. From what is a human being, no matter how saintly, never fully free?
(a) Temptation.
(b) Anger.
(c) The need for sexual release.
(d) The past.

6. 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) They both challenge the idea of god, but the scritures first prove the existence of god.
(d) The scritures are older, but say the same things and have the same concept of god as the Platonists.

7. If two people both believe in the word of God, what can be fruitful?
(a) Agreement.
(b) Compromise on interpretation.
(c) Debate about interpretations.
(d) Witnessing to a third.

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

9. What happens to Verecundus before his death?
(a) He is ex-communicated.
(b) He is baptized.
(c) He converts to Manicheanism.
(d) He has a vision of angels hovering around him.

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

11. What does Augustine wonder about concerning God before creation?
(a) If God created himself at the same time as creation.
(b) If God existed doing nothing.
(c) If God creates god and Satan creates evil at the same time to cancel each other out.
(d) If God really created everything.

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

13. To what does Augustine compare the recitation of a psalm?
(a) Nothing.
(b) The passing of one human life or all of human history.
(c) Hope spoken.
(d) The song of creation.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do we remember when we are sad?

3. To what does Augustine come to think the predictions of astrologists are due?

4. What is an argument that Augustine learns from his friend Nebridius?

5. How can memory make you unhappy?

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