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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. With what word in the scriptures is Augustine particularly fascinated?
(a) Creation.
(b) Time.
(c) Formlessness.
(d) Heaven.

2. What does Augustine warn will happen if we move away from God's responsibility for the creation?
(a) We are moving away from reality, since God is the creator of all things.
(b) We imply creation is an illusion.
(c) We assume responsibility ourselves for creation.
(d) We then hand over responsibility for creation to Lucifer.

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

4. Why does Augustine publish his Confessions?
(a) To earn some money.
(b) To convert pagans.
(c) So the public to know what he once was and what he is now after his Christian conversion.
(d) To see if there were others out there like him.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Augustine compare the recitation of a psalm?

2. What makes it easy for Augustine to quit his job?

3. Who is buried near the Tiber River?

4. Who accompanies Augustine for the holiday?

5. What is different between scripture and the books of the Platonists?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Augustine say about memory?

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

5. What does Augustine say about writing his confession?

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

7. What does Augustine say about the heavens?

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

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

10. How does Augustine see different interpretations of Scripture?

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