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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 does Augustine want to measure?
(a) Time and length.
(b) Length and breadth.
(c) Time and non-time.
(d) Time and breadth.

2. What is non-existent except when it is the present?
(a) The past and future.
(b) God.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Life.

3. How do men receive reflected wisdom from God?
(a) By meditation.
(b) By the enlightenment of the Holy Spirit.
(c) By saying a mantra over and over.
(d) By thinking about the words in the bible.

4. From what does Augustine decide to withdraw?
(a) From his teaching position.
(b) From his reading of philosophy.
(c) From the Catholic church.
(d) From his mistress.

5. How does God create sky, water and earth?
(a) From formless matter.
(b) From the formless part of self.
(c) From thought.
(d) From molecules of form that he rearranges.

Short Answer Questions

1. What tempts Augustine in this part of his life?

2. What differs for each individual and even at different periods of a person's life?

3. What is the heaven of heavens?

4. How does Victorinus become a Christian?

5. Beyond what is memory?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Augustine say about the heavens?

2. How does Augustine see evil?

3. What does Augustine think of the term formless matter?

4. Who is Victorinus and what has he done in his life?

5. What does Augustine think about the Manicheans and why is he angry at them?

6. By the beginning of Book VII, how does Augustine begin to think of God?

7. How does Augustine describe wisdom?

8. What does Augustine decide to do by the end of Book VII and how does his mother feel about his decision?

9. What does Augustine say about his mother's upbringing and some of her behaviors as a married woman?

10. What is the story Augustine hears from Ponticianus and what does the story do to Augustine?

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