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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 is an argument that Augustine learns from his friend Nebridius?
(a) That evil is created to draw man to God.
(b) That light is all that is and therefore dark is nothing.
(c) That evil is only the imagination of man.
(d) If the darkness could harm God, he wouldn't be the Almighty God.

2. Into what can the devil make himself?
(a) A reasonable temptation.
(b) An angel of light (Lucifer) who is evil.
(c) A minor deity.
(d) An average human.

3. If two people both believe in the word of God, what can be fruitful?
(a) Agreement.
(b) Compromise on interpretation.
(c) Witnessing to a third.
(d) Debate about interpretations.

4. How can things deeply hidden in memory be recalled?
(a) Through a conscious effort to remember.
(b) By hypnotism.
(c) In a conversation.
(d) In dreams.

5. Though formlessness is close to nothing, it is not the same as what?
(a) Hope.
(b) Nothingness.
(c) Possibility.
(d) Potential.

Short Answer Questions

1. What indicates that Augustine is not quite ready to fully embrace the way of being a priest of Christianity?

2. What story does Augustine learn from a man named Firminus?

3. When does Augustine reject astrology?

4. With what word in the scriptures is Augustine particularly fascinated?

5. What does the study of the Platonist do for his study of Christian scripture?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Augustine say about memory?

2. What does Augustine say about the past, future and present?

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

4. What does Augustine decide to do at the beginning of Book IX? How does he do it?

5. What does Augustine say about formlessness?

6. What is Alypius' view of Jesus and what is Augustine's?

7. How does Augustine see evil?

8. Augustine says why people hate the truth. What does he say about the truth?

9. What does Augustine say about the heavens?

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

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