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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. Where does Augustine go to study?
(a) The Vatican.
(b) Rome.
(c) Florence.
(d) Carthage.

2. Which of Augustine's friends laughed at predicting the future through stargazing?
(a) Serpius.
(b) Archemenon.
(c) Neferdata.
(d) Nebridius.

3. What book does Augustine understand that challenges many people?
(a) The Ten Comandments of Manichean Life.
(b) The Categories that Govern the Stars.
(c) The Categorical Allusion.
(d) The Ten Categories.

4. Why does Augustine want to move to Rome?
(a) He wants to be near the Pope.
(b) He wants to go to a milder climate.
(c) He has heard the students are more disciplined there.
(d) He wants to study Roman law.

5. Who writes Hortensius?
(a) Homer.
(b) Cicero.
(c) Plato.
(d) Socrates.

Short Answer Questions

1. What interests Augustine more than higher goals or values?

2. What does Augustine struggle to learn in school?

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

4. What is the meaning of the phrase that God creates man in his own image?

5. What is better to seek after than earthly pleasures?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who teaches Augustine about astrology and what does he say?

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

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

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

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

7. What does Augustine feel the pear tree incident symbolized?

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

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

10. What is Augustine's thinking on marriage?

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