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

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

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

4. Who is Simplicianus?
(a) An old man and a teacher of Ambrose.
(b) Augustine's new born son.
(c) One of the teachers in Carthage whom Augustine despises.
(d) Augustine's mother's older brother.

5. What concept does Augustine have difficult understanding?
(a) That Christ is the same as others but more enlightened.
(b) That God has emotions.
(c) That Christ is God and has a body.
(d) That God has no body but loves man who does.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Victorinus?

2. Of what is Augustine reassured?

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

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

5. What books bring a change to Augustine's thinking?

Short Essay Questions

1. Augustine says why people hate the truth. What does he say about the truth?

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

3. How does Augustine see evil?

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

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

6. Explain why Augustine rejects astrology.

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

8. How does Augustine see different interpretations of Scripture?

9. What does Augustine say about the heavens?

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

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