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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Augustine want to measure?
(a) Length and breadth.
(b) Time and length.
(c) Time and breadth.
(d) Time and non-time.
2. What books bring a change to Augustine's thinking?
(a) Books of the Platonists.
(b) Books of the disciples of Socrates.
(c) Grendal and the Four Horsemen.
(d) The Illiad and Odyssey.
3. Instead of having a body, how does Augustine see God?
(a) As thought only.
(b) As vibration.
(c) As spirit only.
(d) As having some sort of material substance.
4. Where does Augustus go for the Vintage holiday?
(a) To Britian.
(b) To Carthage.
(c) To Florence.
(d) To a country retreat estate in Cassiciacum.
5. What does Simplicianus say Victorinus has to do?
(a) Make a pilgrimage to the Holy Lands.
(b) Go to the Church and convert publicly to Christianity.
(c) Become a priest.
(d) Ask Jesus to open his eyes.
6. As time goes on, what happens to the future?
(a) It moves farther into the future.
(b) The future passes the point of the present, and is consumed, becoming the past.
(c) It recedes into non-existence.
(d) It was never real so nothing happens to it.
7. Of what is Augustine reassured?
(a) That Jesus loves him.
(b) That he does not have to give up his philosophical and scientific inquiries.
(c) That God is just waiting on him.
(d) That the end does indeed justify the means.
8. What does the study of the Platonist do for his study of Christian scripture?
(a) Intensifies it.
(b) Compliments it.
(c) Refutes it.
(d) Agrees in some places and is diametrically different in others.
9. How do men receive reflected wisdom from God?
(a) By the enlightenment of the Holy Spirit.
(b) By thinking about the words in the bible.
(c) By meditation.
(d) By saying a mantra over and over.
10. With what word in the scriptures is Augustine particularly fascinated?
(a) Time.
(b) Creation.
(c) Formlessness.
(d) Heaven.
11. What does Augustine begin to understand from studying the books in question 104?
(a) That God does not look at an evil man.
(b) That evil is a result of ignorance and corruption of the good.
(c) That corruption is a result of poor choices.
(d) That evil cannot pass through the veil
12. How does Victorinus become a Christian?
(a) By realizing the simple logic of the Christian doctrine.
(b) By seeing how joyful Christians are.
(c) By asking for a revelation from Jesus.
(d) By studying the Christian Scriptures.
13. How can memory make you unhappy?
(a) Thinking about what might have been.
(b) Remembering the slights of others and feeling resentful.
(c) Not letting go of the negative emotion with a memory.
(d) By remembering something in the past which disgusts you now.
14. What indicates that Augustine is not quite ready to fully embrace the way of being a priest of Christianity?
(a) He has not yet divorced his wife.
(b) He still attends Manichean rites.
(c) He still has a mistress.
(d) He still goes to the houses of "ill repute."
15. If two people both believe in the word of God, what can be fruitful?
(a) Agreement.
(b) Debate about interpretations.
(c) Witnessing to a third.
(d) Compromise on interpretation.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Augustine say is wrong about the existence of God in time?
2. What is the heaven of heavens?
3. Who accompanies Augustine for the holiday?
4. Besides concrete detail, what else does the mind remember?
5. From what does Augustine decide to withdraw?
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