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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. Who is Adeodatus?
(a) Augustine's son.
(b) Augustine's cousin.
(c) Augustine's brother.
(d) Augustine's current rhetoric teacher.

2. At what age does Augustine decide to become a philosopher?
(a) 16.
(b) 25.
(c) 33.
(d) 19.

3. 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."

4. What is Augustine's position in his circle of friends?
(a) He is a loner.
(b) Someone on the fringes.
(c) A follower.
(d) A leader.

5. How is Augustine a paradox within himself?
(a) He sees a play and feels both sorrow and pleasure in witnessing the suffering.
(b) He wants to do good but does evil instead.
(c) He sins and yet tells others not to sin.
(d) He loves a woman and hates her at the same time.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Alypius finally give up doing?

2. What does Augustine call his living arrangement?

3. What book does Augustine understand that challenges many people?

4. In what way does God work?

5. What does the book Hortensius give Augustine?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How do the questions Augustine have about God and the world affect his faith?

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

8. What intensifies as Augustine grows into a young man and of what type of behavior does he indulge?

9. What does Augustine foreshadow about philosophy and himself?

10. Where does Augustine want to move and why?

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