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

2. Who is buried near the Tiber River?
(a) Monica.
(b) Justina.
(c) Ambrose.
(d) Augustine.

3. How does Augustine define formlessness?
(a) As everything.
(b) As ineffable.
(c) As close to nothing, but capable of receiving form.
(d) As substance to be wrought by the thought of God.

4. Before the Heavens and the Earth existed what does Augustine say did not exist?
(a) Everything.
(b) Evil.
(c) Love.
(d) Cycles of the sun, the moon, or the planets.

5. What does the Roman empress Justina favor?
(a) The Greek gods over those of the Romans.
(b) Celtic gods.
(c) The Pope over the Greek gods.
(d) The Arian heresy over Christianity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is an argument that Augustine learns from his friend Nebridius?

2. How does Victorinus become a Christian?

3. What is non-existent except when it is the present?

4. In the Manichean doctrine, what does light and darkness represent?

5. What happens to Verecundus before his death?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Augustine think about the Manicheans and why is he angry at them?

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

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

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

5. What does Augustine say about memory?

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

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

8. How does Augustine describe wisdom?

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

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

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