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

3. What can the mind remember though it doesn't exist anymore?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Birth.
(c) The past.
(d) One's past deaths.

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

5. Why can there be more than one interpretation of a piece of scripture?
(a) Because God is infinte.
(b) Because it can have a surface meaning and a deeper meaning.
(c) Because it is applicable to man one way and to woman in a different way.
(d) Because it can mean different things in different cultures.

6. What is an argument that Augustine learns from his friend Nebridius?
(a) That evil is created to draw man to God.
(b) That evil is only the imagination of man.
(c) If the darkness could harm God, he wouldn't be the Almighty God.
(d) That light is all that is and therefore dark is nothing.

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

8. Besides concrete detail, what else does the mind remember?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Feelings.
(c) Dates.
(d) Ideas.

9. What must one avoid in interpreting the scriptures?
(a) Slothful thinking.
(b) Satan's insidious whispers.
(c) Heresy.
(d) Pride.

10. What does the study of the Platonist do for his study of Christian scripture?
(a) Agrees in some places and is diametrically different in others.
(b) Intensifies it.
(c) Compliments it.
(d) Refutes it.

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

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

13. Who is Simplicianus?
(a) An old man and a teacher of Ambrose.
(b) One of the teachers in Carthage whom Augustine despises.
(c) Augustine's mother's older brother.
(d) Augustine's new born son.

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

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