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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. Upon what does Augustine reflect as to the nature of life and death?
(a) It is inevitable but only controlled by fate.
(b) God controls all aspects of life and death.
(c) Life is only a cruel joke and death is the punchline.
(d) Time passes, and people die, and that is the nature of things.

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

3. Why doesn't Ambrose want wine brought to the tombs?
(a) It encourages sloth.
(b) It will ferment more and create bad smells.
(c) It may encourage drunkeness.
(d) He doesn't mind wine at the tombs.

4. What does Augustine call his living arrangement?
(a) An arrangement of convenience based on lust.
(b) The best of both worlds.
(c) A marriage made in heaven.
(d) A temporary truce with lust.

5. Besides thievery, in what is Augustine involved?
(a) Murder.
(b) Pranks.
(c) Cheating on his exams.
(d) Gambling.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the book Hortensius give Augustine?

2. How does Augustine possibly cross the boundaries between friendship and sex?

3. What does Hortensius promote?

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

5. How is Augustine a paradox within himself?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Augustine's thinking on marriage?

2. How does Monica feel about Augustine moving and how does he get around her?

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

4. Where does Augustine want to move and why?

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

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

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

8. What does Augustine foreshadow about philosophy and himself?

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

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

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