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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. What do the Manicheans believe when one their "Elect" digest food gifts?
(a) The Elect move forward on the wheel of time.
(b) The gift is transmuted into divine energy.
(c) Angels or spirits are released to the Manichean's benefit.
(d) The gifts' energy feeds the universe.

2. How long as Augustine been a member of the Manichean sect when he is 29?
(a) 19 years.
(b) 3 years.
(c) 9 years.
(d) 1 year.

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

4. Why does Augustine wish his family had arranged a marriage for him?
(a) So his mother could be taken care of.
(b) So that he wouldn't have to become a monk.
(c) So that at least his sexual lust would have produced a family.
(d) For the prestige that a marriage could have brought.

5. In what is Augustine particularly interested?
(a) The importance of a person's intentions.
(b) The ways religion all led to the same place.
(c) How he can become successful in the church.
(d) The history of the world.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is the name of a book Augustine wrote that he later lost?

4. Why does Augustine find a woman to live with him while his fiance is too young?

5. What is a flaw in the book in number 70?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Augustine says he wrote Confessions for what reason?

3. What did Augustine write about that involved a theft of pears and how did he feel about it?

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

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

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

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

8. What does Augustine say is the difference between how the simple-minded and intellectuals read and understand the Scriptures?

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

10. What does Augustine foreshadow about philosophy and himself?

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