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

2. What does the faithful begin doing under the guidance of Ambrose?
(a) Singing hymns in order to maintain their strength while protecting the church.
(b) Trying to convert servants in the palace to maybe reach Justina eventually.
(c) Baptizing all who want to be, even Jews.
(d) Preaching to the ends of the earth.

3. What is another name for the wisdom of God?
(a) The Holy Spirit.
(b) Creation.
(c) Being.
(d) There is not name for God's wisdom; it is ineffable.

4. What is one definition of evil?
(a) A perversity of the will and a turning against God.
(b) A decision to not follow one's own heart.
(c) A active pushing away of a child from the light.
(d) The absence of good intentions.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is buried near the Tiber River?

2. Beyond what is memory?

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

4. What is different between scripture and the books of the Platonists?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Augustine say about the heavens?

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

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

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

7. What does Augustine say about formlessness?

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

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

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

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