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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 different between scripture and the books of the Platonists?
(a) The scritures are older, but say the same things and have the same concept of god as the Platonists.
(b) They both challenge the idea of god, but the scritures first prove the existence of god.
(c) Nothing except who authors them.
(d) God does not exist in the Platonists' books.

2. What story does Augustine learn from a man named Firminus?
(a) Of how Jesus used the stars to predict events.
(b) About the son of a rich man and the son of a slave are born at almost the exact same time, and under the same stars.
(c) Of the fact that twins always have the same fates.
(d) Of a time when astrology really was accurate.

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

4. What books bring a change to Augustine's thinking?
(a) Books of the disciples of Socrates.
(b) The Illiad and Odyssey.
(c) Grendal and the Four Horsemen.
(d) Books of the Platonists.

5. Who is Victorinus?
(a) A man who translates the Platonist texts into Latin.
(b) A man who translates the Platonist texts into modern Greek.
(c) A man who is studying the Greek gods with Augustine.
(d) A man who translates the Platonist texts into Gaelic.

Short Answer Questions

1. Into what can the devil make himself?

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

3. What is the heaven of heavens?

4. How does Victorinus become a Christian?

5. What does the mind retain in memory?

Short Essay Questions

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

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 think about the Manicheans and why is he angry at them?

4. Why does Augustine feel a sort of schizophrenia?

5. What does Augustine say about music and pleasure?

6. What happened at the church in Milan and what Christian tradition was started there?

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

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

9. How does Augustine see different interpretations of Scripture?

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

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