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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What tempts Augustine in this part of his life?
(a) Drink.
(b) Music.
(c) Vanity.
(d) Women.
2. What does Simplicianus say Victorinus has to do?
(a) Go to the Church and convert publicly to Christianity.
(b) Become a priest.
(c) Make a pilgrimage to the Holy Lands.
(d) Ask Jesus to open his eyes.
3. Instead of having a body, how does Augustine see God?
(a) As spirit only.
(b) As vibration.
(c) As thought only.
(d) As having some sort of material substance.
4. Of what is Augustine reassured?
(a) That God is just waiting on him.
(b) That he does not have to give up his philosophical and scientific inquiries.
(c) That the end does indeed justify the means.
(d) That Jesus loves him.
5. Who is Victorinus?
(a) A man who is studying the Greek gods with Augustine.
(b) A man who translates the Platonist texts into modern Greek.
(c) A man who translates the Platonist texts into Gaelic.
(d) A man who translates the Platonist texts into Latin.
6. 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 are moving away from reality, since God is the creator of all things.
(c) We assume responsibility ourselves for creation.
(d) We imply creation is an illusion.
7. How can things deeply hidden in memory be recalled?
(a) Through a conscious effort to remember.
(b) In dreams.
(c) In a conversation.
(d) By hypnotism.
8. How does Victorinus become a Christian?
(a) By asking for a revelation from Jesus.
(b) By seeing how joyful Christians are.
(c) By studying the Christian Scriptures.
(d) By realizing the simple logic of the Christian doctrine.
9. With what word in the scriptures is Augustine particularly fascinated?
(a) Time.
(b) Formlessness.
(c) Heaven.
(d) Creation.
10. What does not signal the end of Augustine's struggles?
(a) His Christian faith.
(b) His acceptance of the existence of both good and evil.
(c) Giving up his materialistic desires.
(d) His study of the Old Testament.
11. Why does Simplicianus have to stop teaching rhetoric?
(a) His eyesight is failing.
(b) The Pope forbids it of Christians.
(c) The Roman Emperor Julian forbids Christians to teach rhetoric.
(d) His congregation thinks it is heretical.
12. What question does Augustine ask?
(a) How can I know I am going to heaven?
(b) How does Jesus, a dead person, know me.
(c) Why have I been placed on this earth.
(d) What does it mean to love God?
13. What does Augustine wonder about concerning God before creation?
(a) If God really created everything.
(b) If God created himself at the same time as creation.
(c) If God creates god and Satan creates evil at the same time to cancel each other out.
(d) If God existed doing nothing.
14. How does Augustine define formlessness?
(a) As ineffable.
(b) As substance to be wrought by the thought of God.
(c) As everything.
(d) As close to nothing, but capable of receiving form.
15. 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 Christ is God and has a body.
(d) That God has no body but loves man who does.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the heaven of heavens?
2. Besides concrete detail, what else does the mind remember?
3. To what does Augustine come to think the predictions of astrologists are due?
4. What does Augustine begin to understand from studying the books in question 104?
5. What does the study of the Platonist do for his study of Christian scripture?
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