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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the angels live in heaven?
(a) In joyful physicality.
(b) In silence and awe.
(c) In chaste love.
(d) They don't live in heaven; they are man's helpmates on earth.

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

3. Why does Augustine believe it is not the motion of the heavenly bodies that determines the length of a day?
(a) Because heavenly bodies are in a set relation to each other always.
(b) Because God could not have created the earth in 7 earth days.
(c) Because heavenly bodies are motionless and therefore cannot make time move.
(d) Because different heavenly bodies move at different speeds.

4. Why is Augustine angry with the Manicheans?
(a) They ex-communicated him.
(b) They had provided him with an excuse for his behavior for so long.
(c) They changed a very important part of their creed.
(d) He is not angry with them.

5. What books bring a change to Augustine's thinking?
(a) The Illiad and Odyssey.
(b) Books of the Platonists.
(c) Grendal and the Four Horsemen.
(d) Books of the disciples of Socrates.

6. 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.

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

8. What differs for each individual and even at different periods of a person's life?
(a) The happy life.
(b) Faith.
(c) God.
(d) Memory.

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

10. What does scripture not discuss?
(a) How to be creators also.
(b) Why God creates.
(c) The creation of mankind.
(d) The creation of formless matter.

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

12. What concept does Augustine have difficult understanding?
(a) That Christ is the same as others but more enlightened.
(b) That God has emotions.
(c) That God has no body but loves man who does.
(d) That Christ is God and has a body.

13. What does Augustine say is wrong about the existence of God in time?
(a) That time is real to even compare it to God's existence.
(b) It is wrong to say that time could have existed before God's creation of the heaven and the earth.
(c) That time is a creation of God.
(d) That God even exists in time.

14. In the Manichean doctrine, what does light and darkness represent?
(a) Morality and immorality.
(b) The way and the non-way.
(c) The smooth path and the rocky path.
(d) Good and evil.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What must one avoid in interpreting the scriptures?

2. What does Augustine want to measure?

3. What is the heaven of heavens?

4. How can things deeply hidden in memory be recalled?

5. Why can there be more than one interpretation of a piece of scripture?

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