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

2. Who does Augustine arrange to marry?
(a) No one; he decides to never marry.
(b) A girl who is two years underage.
(c) A woman he knew from childhood.
(d) A woman he meets there in Milan who is a teacher also.

3. Why does Augustine get in trouble?
(a) He has no discipline.
(b) He follows his friends who are smarter than he.
(c) He believes he deserves a better life.
(d) He is angry with his father.

4. With what is Augustine in love?
(a) With himself.
(b) With vice.
(c) With being in love.
(d) With violence.

5. What is the meaning of the phrase that God creates man in his own image?
(a) It is a metaphor referring to the Godlike attributes of man being also a creative and reasoning creature.
(b) That God has a physical body very much like that of a man.
(c) It means God creates only man; woman already existed.
(d) That man needed God's image and woman don't as they are already pure.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Augustine feel when he reads of Zeus engaging in fornication and being powerful?

2. What does Augustine refuse?

3. Upon what does Augustine wonder?

4. What happens to a friend who is ill and unconscious?

5. Besides thievery, in what is Augustine involved?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Augustine's initial conversion to Christianity come about?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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