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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is better to seek after than earthly pleasures?
(a) Joyful living with God.
(b) To be kind to all.
(c) Heaven through being an ascetic.
(d) Marriage and propagating as God commanded.

2. What notion does Augustine attack?
(a) That there is no wrong behavior.
(b) That if one studies diligently, one can come to understand how the world works.
(c) That women are not equal to men.
(d) The idea of the innocence of childhood.

3. How does Augustine change his view of evil?
(a) He sees that evil only exists as a concept and is not real.
(b) He believes evil is created by God and can be annihilated by God.
(c) He sees that evil is caused by corruption and lack of good.
(d) He sees there is not such thing as evil.

4. What is one of Augustine's future struggles in life?
(a) To allow those he love to walk their own path.
(b) To have the spirit of truth and faith to inform his and others' good deeds.
(c) If he should take vows with the church.
(d) Whether to marry his childhood sweetheart and enter into sins of the flesh.

5. What is Augustine's position in his circle of friends?
(a) Someone on the fringes.
(b) A leader.
(c) He is a loner.
(d) A follower.

6. Into what has St. Augustine sunk?
(a) A pit of despair.
(b) Sin and lustful behavior.
(c) The a life of glory for God.
(d) A deep depression.

7. What is the meaning of the phrase that God creates man in his own image?
(a) That man needed God's image and woman don't as they are already pure.
(b) It is a metaphor referring to the Godlike attributes of man being also a creative and reasoning creature.
(c) It means God creates only man; woman already existed.
(d) That God has a physical body very much like that of a man.

8. How is Augustine a paradox within himself?
(a) He wants to do good but does evil instead.
(b) He sees a play and feels both sorrow and pleasure in witnessing the suffering.
(c) He loves a woman and hates her at the same time.
(d) He sins and yet tells others not to sin.

9. Where does Augustine go to study?
(a) Florence.
(b) Carthage.
(c) The Vatican.
(d) Rome.

10. What does Hortensius promote?
(a) The general goal of seeking the truth.
(b) Violence for change.
(c) Belief in oneself.
(d) Hedonistic living.

11. Why is Augustine's father is willing to shoulder large financial burdens?
(a) To have large doweries for his daughters.
(b) To have servants to care for his children.
(c) To help Augustine succeed.
(d) To give his wife a luxurious lifestyle.

12. What is one of Augustine's greatest faults as a boy and young man?
(a) Overly diligent.
(b) Too serious.
(c) He really had few faults, not too bad.
(d) Pride.

13. Who joins Augustus in Milan?
(a) His mother.
(b) His wife.
(c) No one.
(d) His brother.

14. Why do Augustine and his friends steal a pear?
(a) Because they are hungry students.
(b) Because the owner of the fruit trees had insulted them.
(c) Because there is a beggar who is starving and they give it to him.
(d) For the pure pleasure of thievery.

15. In what does Augustine try to be honest?
(a) In paying his taxes to Rome.
(b) In telling his parents about his life.
(c) In the various competitions in which he participates.
(d) In how he teaches.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Augustine see Christianity as being deficient?

2. Why doesn't Ambrose want wine brought to the tombs?

3. For what is there always a rationale?

4. At the beginning of this book, where is Augustine a student?

5. What does Augustine struggle to learn in school?

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