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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. By what does Augustine feel overwhelmed?
(a) By his inability to corrupt his friends faith.
(b) By the power of sin and death.
(c) By his friend's miraculous recovery.
(d) By the task set before him by God.

2. What type of behavior is not tolerate in Rome?
(a) Refusing to stand when a teacher enters.
(b) Spitting on the streets.
(c) Showing no regard for one's parents.
(d) Students who are disruptive.

3. With what is Augustine preoccupied?
(a) Becoming holy.
(b) Taking a trip to the Holy Lands.
(c) Drama both on stage and in real life.
(d) Learning languages.

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

5. What interests Augustine more than higher goals or values?
(a) Wealth.
(b) Love and friendship.
(c) Success and fame.
(d) Intellectual knowledge.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does a Christian priest predict of Augustine?

2. In what way does God work?

3. On what does Augustine eventually blame his actions?

4. What does Augustine resent about his studies of Latin and Greek literature?

5. Instead of learning Christian stories, what does Augustine learn?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How has Augustine solved the problem of his lust and what is the result of this solution?

3. Augustine says he wrote Confessions for what reason?

4. What is Augustine's thinking on marriage?

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

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

7. What do the Manicheans believe about food?

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

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

10. What kind of pressure does Augustine feel as a young person and what does he do about it?

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