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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. Why does Augustine believe it is not the motion of the heavenly bodies that determines the length of a day?
(a) Because heavenly bodies are in a set relation to each other always.
(b) Because different heavenly bodies move at different speeds.
(c) Because God could not have created the earth in 7 earth days.
(d) Because heavenly bodies are motionless and therefore cannot make time move.

2. What indicates that Augustine is not quite ready to fully embrace the way of being a priest of Christianity?
(a) He still goes to the houses of "ill repute."
(b) He has not yet divorced his wife.
(c) He still has a mistress.
(d) He still attends Manichean rites.

3. How can memory make you unhappy?
(a) Thinking about what might have been.
(b) Remembering the slights of others and feeling resentful.
(c) By remembering something in the past which disgusts you now.
(d) Not letting go of the negative emotion with a memory.

4. What do we remember when we are sad?
(a) The past.
(b) Love.
(c) Happiness.
(d) God.

5. What does Augustine say is wrong about the existence of God in time?
(a) It is wrong to say that time could have existed before God's creation of the heaven and the earth.
(b) That time is a creation of God.
(c) That God even exists in time.
(d) That time is real to even compare it to God's existence.

Short Answer Questions

1. What can the mind remember though it doesn't exist anymore?

2. What happens to Verecundus before his death?

3. Instead of having a body, how does Augustine see God?

4. What is an argument that Augustine learns from his friend Nebridius?

5. Who is Victorinus?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Augustine say about memory?

5. What does Augustine say about writing his confession?

6. What does Augustine say about music and pleasure?

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

8. Discuss the idea Augustine had about the beginning of all and on time.

9. How does Augustine see evil?

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

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