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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. How does Augustine possibly cross the boundaries between friendship and sex?
(a) Being friends with a woman and then seducing her under the guise of friendship.
(b) He never confuses the two states of being.
(c) Being sexually involved with a male friend.
(d) Having sex with the wives of male friends.

2. Why is Augustine's father is willing to shoulder large financial burdens?
(a) To have large doweries for his daughters.
(b) To give his wife a luxurious lifestyle.
(c) To have servants to care for his children.
(d) To help Augustine succeed.

3. Instead of learning Christian stories, what does Augustine learn?
(a) How to be a soldier.
(b) The precepts of Buddhism.
(c) He learned and admired the Gods in pagan myths.
(d) How to be a successful businessman.

4. What sect does Augustine prefer?
(a) Judain.
(b) Manachean.
(c) Hermite.
(d) Gnostics.

5. Why does Augustine find a woman to live with him while his fiance is too young?
(a) He cannot stand to be without a woman.
(b) He is soft hearted and she needs a home.
(c) He thinks a man should always have a woman to show him the right way to live.
(d) He wants to provide a home for this woman until she has his baby.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does he prefer that sect at that time in his life?

2. How does Augustine change his view of evil?

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

4. What does Alypius finally give up doing?

5. How does Augustine later view the Manichean myths?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did one of Augustine's friends abandon Christianity and what happens after that?

2. As a young man how does Augustine feel about love and what doesn't he understand about it?

3. What happens with Augustine and the Manicheans and why?

4. What is Augustine's thinking on marriage?

5. What type of job does Augustine do and where does he get his money?

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

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

8. What does Augustine's parents want for him?

9. What are Augustine's reflections on life and death?

10. What does Augustine fear about the effect of studying pagan myths when he was young?

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