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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. Of what is Augustine reassured?
(a) That he does not have to give up his philosophical and scientific inquiries.
(b) That Jesus loves him.
(c) That the end does indeed justify the means.
(d) That God is just waiting on him.

2. With what word in the scriptures is Augustine particularly fascinated?
(a) Creation.
(b) Heaven.
(c) Time.
(d) Formlessness.

3. What does Augustine see as his responsibility?
(a) All his actions.
(b) Teaching Jesus's gospel.
(c) Preaching to the heathen.
(d) Learning the commandments of God.

4. Why does Augustine believe it is not the motion of the heavenly bodies that determines the length of a day?
(a) Because different heavenly bodies move at different speeds.
(b) Because heavenly bodies are motionless and therefore cannot make time move.
(c) Because God could not have created the earth in 7 earth days.
(d) Because heavenly bodies are in a set relation to each other always.

5. What makes it easy for Augustine to quit his job?
(a) The dean is not happy with him.
(b) He has not been very popular with the students.
(c) He has been suffering from overwork.
(d) He feels God paving the way.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who has Augustine already studied much?

2. When does Augustine reject astrology?

3. What does Augustine want to measure?

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

5. What is Augustine's new life?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Augustine say about music and pleasure?

2. What does Augustine say about formlessness?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Why does Augustine feel a sort of schizophrenia?

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