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

2. What books bring a change to Augustine's thinking?
(a) Books of the disciples of Socrates.
(b) The Illiad and Odyssey.
(c) Grendal and the Four Horsemen.
(d) Books of the Platonists.

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

4. When does Augustine reject astrology?
(a) After speaking to an old man Vindicianus, and also due to the arguments of his friend Nebridius.
(b) When he studies his horoscope for a year and very little comes true.
(c) When the stars show a pattern not predicted.
(d) When it says he was to die when he was 28 and he doesn't.

5. What tempts Augustine in this part of his life?
(a) Music.
(b) Women.
(c) Vanity.
(d) Drink.

Short Answer Questions

1. Besides concrete detail, what else does the mind remember?

2. Who is buried near the Tiber River?

3. Beyond what is memory?

4. What makes it easy for Augustine to quit his job?

5. How does Augustine create his own image of the Heaven of Heavens?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Augustine say about writing his confession?

5. What does Augustine say about formlessness?

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

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

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

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

10. What does Augustine say about the heavens?

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