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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 Augustine's new life?
(a) Going to Africa to preach.
(b) As a monk of the church.
(c) Moving to Britain and starting a monastery.
(d) With the woman he marries.

2. To what does Augustine compare the recitation of a psalm?
(a) Nothing.
(b) The song of creation.
(c) The passing of one human life or all of human history.
(d) Hope spoken.

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

4. As time goes on, what happens to the future?
(a) It recedes into non-existence.
(b) The future passes the point of the present, and is consumed, becoming the past.
(c) It was never real so nothing happens to it.
(d) It moves farther into the future.

5. What differs for each individual and even at different periods of a person's life?
(a) Memory.
(b) The happy life.
(c) God.
(d) Faith.

Short Answer Questions

1. Though formlessness is close to nothing, it is not the same as what?

2. Of what is Augustine reassured?

3. How does Victorinus become a Christian?

4. How can memory make you unhappy?

5. To what does Augustine come to think the predictions of astrologists are due?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Augustine say about the heavens?

2. What does Augustine say about music and pleasure?

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

4. What does Augustine say about writing his confession?

5. What does Augustine say about formlessness?

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

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

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

9. Why does Augustine feel a sort of schizophrenia?

10. How does Augustine see different interpretations of Scripture?

(see the answer keys)

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