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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. When does Augustine reject astrology?
(a) When it says he was to die when he was 28 and he doesn't.
(b) After speaking to an old man Vindicianus, and also due to the arguments of his friend Nebridius.
(c) When the stars show a pattern not predicted.
(d) When he studies his horoscope for a year and very little comes true.

2. What does Augustine see as his responsibility?
(a) Teaching Jesus's gospel.
(b) All his actions.
(c) Preaching to the heathen.
(d) Learning the commandments of God.

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

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

5. How do the angels live in heaven?
(a) In chaste love.
(b) In joyful physicality.
(c) In silence and awe.
(d) They don't live in heaven; they are man's helpmates on earth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Augustine want to measure?

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

3. What does Augustine begin to understand from studying the books in question 104?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Augustine say about music and pleasure?

4. Why does Augustine feel a sort of schizophrenia?

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

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

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

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

9. What does Augustine say about his mother's upbringing and some of her behaviors as a married woman?

10. Explain why Augustine rejects astrology.

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