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

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

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

4. What does Alypius finally give up doing?
(a) Following the Manichean sect.
(b) Watching the gladiator and circus games.
(c) Sex outside of marriage.
(d) Studying Buddhism.

5. Why do Augustine and his friends steal a pear?
(a) Because there is a beggar who is starving and they give it to him.
(b) Because the owner of the fruit trees had insulted them.
(c) For the pure pleasure of thievery.
(d) Because they are hungry students.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Augustine struggle to learn in school?

2. What sort of philosophy does Augustine have?

3. What is Augustine thinking of doing?

4. In what way does God work?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Augustine feel about the Christianity he comes in contact with and what does he observe about the morals of Christians?

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

5. What does Augustine foreshadow about philosophy and himself?

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

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

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

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

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

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