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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. Why is Augustine angry with the Manicheans?
(a) He is not angry with them.
(b) They ex-communicated him.
(c) They had provided him with an excuse for his behavior for so long.
(d) They changed a very important part of their creed.

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

3. How do the angels live in heaven?
(a) In joyful physicality.
(b) In chaste love.
(c) In silence and awe.
(d) They don't live in heaven; they are man's helpmates on earth.

4. What can the mind remember though it doesn't exist anymore?
(a) The past.
(b) One's past deaths.
(c) Birth.
(d) Nothing.

5. What does Simplicianus tell Augustine Victorinus does before his recent passing?
(a) Prophesizes that Augustine will die in sin.
(b) Converts to the Manichean sect.
(c) Converted to Christianity.
(d) Prophesizes that Augustine will be a lion of God.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Augustine compare the recitation of a psalm?

2. How does Victorinus become a Christian?

3. From what does Augustine decide to withdraw?

4. Before the Heavens and the Earth existed what does Augustine say did not exist?

5. What is Augustine's new life?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Augustine say about writing his confession?

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

5. What does Augustine decide to do by the end of Book VII and how does his mother feel about his decision?

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 the past, future and present?

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

10. Explain why Augustine rejects astrology.

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