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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With what is Augustine in love?
(a) With being in love.
(b) With himself.
(c) With vice.
(d) With violence.

2. How does Augustine later view the Manichean myths?
(a) As ridiculous.
(b) As evil.
(c) As misguided.
(d) As correct by incomplete.

3. What does Augustine say about people like his mother, Monica?
(a) That she was the only one whose intentions were always best for Augustine.
(b) That though righteous, she did not always have the best of intentions.
(c) That she led him astray through her wantoness.
(d) That she had very little influence on him.

4. With what is Augustine preoccupied?
(a) Drama both on stage and in real life.
(b) Learning languages.
(c) Taking a trip to the Holy Lands.
(d) Becoming holy.

5. What is the name of a book Augustine wrote that he later lost?
(a) "The Beautiful and the Fitting."
(b) "The Beautiful Fits All Souls."
(c) "The Fitting Way of Life and Death."
(d) "Fitting One's Soul in the Earthly Physical Life."

Short Answer Questions

1. How could Augustine's "journey" be categorized?

2. What is the Fables of Manes?

3. Why does Augustine wish his family had arranged a marriage for him?

4. Instead of learning Christian stories, what does Augustine learn?

5. To whom was the book he lost dedicated?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Augustine decide about reading Scripture and interpreting it?

2. What gives Augustine an excuse to continue following his baser desires?

3. What does Augustine believe about the men in the Bible and how does he apply that to people in general?

4. What is Augustine's thinking on marriage?

5. What does Augustine say about his "sins" as a schoolboy and his teachers reaction to them?

6. What did Augustine wonder about in relationship to God and the world and what are a couple of the questions he asked?

7. Where does Augustine want to move and why?

8. What is Augustine's primary thoughts of when he arrives in Carthage and what does he do with them?

9. Where is Augustine a student in Carthage and why does he study so diligently?

10. How has Augustine solved the problem of his lust and what is the result of this solution?

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