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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 non-time.
(b) Length and breadth.
(c) Time and breadth.
(d) Time and length.

2. What happens to Verecundus before his death?
(a) He is baptized.
(b) He is ex-communicated.
(c) He converts to Manicheanism.
(d) He has a vision of angels hovering around him.

3. What does Augustine think would happen if there was really a kingdom of light versus a kingdom of darkness?
(a) God would destroy the kingdom of darkness.
(b) The darkness would cover up the light and there would therefore be no light.
(c) The light would outshine the dark and there could then be no dark.
(d) They would cancel each other out and there would be nothing.

4. What does the Roman empress Justina favor?
(a) The Greek gods over those of the Romans.
(b) Celtic gods.
(c) The Pope over the Greek gods.
(d) The Arian heresy over Christianity.

5. What question does Augustine ask?
(a) What does it mean to love God?
(b) How can I know I am going to heaven?
(c) How does Jesus, a dead person, know me.
(d) Why have I been placed on this earth.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Augustine create his own image of the Heaven of Heavens?

2. What is one definition of evil?

3. If two people both believe in the word of God, what can be fruitful?

4. How can memory make you unhappy?

5. Why is Augustine angry with the Manicheans?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Explain why Augustine rejects astrology.

6. What does Augustine say about music and pleasure?

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

8. Why does Augustine feel a sort of schizophrenia?

9. What does Augustine say about writing his confession?

10. What does Augustine say is the use of the senses in dealing with time?

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