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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. Who has Augustine already studied much?
(a) The development of Chrisitanity in Britian.
(b) The Greek gods.
(c) The Gnostics.
(d) The Platonists and their natural philosophy.

2. How does Augustine create his own image of the Heaven of Heavens?
(a) He knows he cannot create such a thing.
(b) He creates it in his own heart and mind.
(c) He draws a picture of it so he can visualize it.
(d) He asks the Holy Spirit to show him heaven.

3. From what is a human being, no matter how saintly, never fully free?
(a) Anger.
(b) Temptation.
(c) The past.
(d) The need for sexual release.

4. What does Augustine wonder about concerning God before creation?
(a) If God existed doing nothing.
(b) If God really created everything.
(c) If God created himself at the same time as creation.
(d) If God creates god and Satan creates evil at the same time to cancel each other out.

5. Why does Simplicianus have to stop teaching rhetoric?
(a) The Pope forbids it of Christians.
(b) His congregation thinks it is heretical.
(c) The Roman Emperor Julian forbids Christians to teach rhetoric.
(d) His eyesight is failing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Roman empress Justina favor?

2. How do the angels live in heaven?

3. What phrase does Augustine use as an example of different interpretations?

4. What concept does Augustine have difficult understanding?

5. How can memory make you unhappy?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Augustine say about the heavens?

5. How does Augustine see evil?

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

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

8. Explain why Augustine rejects astrology.

9. What does Augustine say about music and pleasure?

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

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