Confessions Test | Final Test - Easy

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Confessions Test | Final Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. From what does Augustine decide to withdraw?
(a) From his mistress.
(b) From his reading of philosophy.
(c) From the Catholic church.
(d) From his teaching position.

3. Who has Augustine already studied much?
(a) The Gnostics.
(b) The Greek gods.
(c) The development of Chrisitanity in Britian.
(d) The Platonists and their natural philosophy.

4. What does Simplicianus say Victorinus has to do?
(a) Make a pilgrimage to the Holy Lands.
(b) Become a priest.
(c) Go to the Church and convert publicly to Christianity.
(d) Ask Jesus to open his eyes.

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. What does Augustine want to measure?
(a) Time and non-time.
(b) Time and breadth.
(c) Time and length.
(d) Length and breadth.

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

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

14. What is Augustine's new life?
(a) Going to Africa to preach.
(b) With the woman he marries.
(c) As a monk of the church.
(d) Moving to Britain and starting a monastery.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the mind retain in memory?

2. If two people both believe in the word of God, what can be fruitful?

3. From what is a human being, no matter how saintly, never fully free?

4. What is different between scripture and the books of the Platonists?

5. What concept does Augustine have difficult understanding?

(see the answer keys)

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