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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Adeodatus?
(a) Augustine's son.
(b) Augustine's brother.
(c) Augustine's cousin.
(d) Augustine's current rhetoric teacher.

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

3. What about Augustine are both of his parents proud?
(a) His kindness.
(b) His appeal to women.
(c) His wit.
(d) His intellect.

4. How does Augustine leave Carthage and his mother?
(a) With his mother's blessings.
(b) With her disowning him.
(c) By sneaking away while his mother is in Athens.
(d) He pretends to just be seeing a friend off at the docks but gets on a ship, too.

5. Why does Augustine find a woman to live with him while his fiance is too young?
(a) He cannot stand to be without a woman.
(b) He wants to provide a home for this woman until she has his baby.
(c) He is soft hearted and she needs a home.
(d) He thinks a man should always have a woman to show him the right way to live.

6. Who does Augustine meet in Milan?
(a) Archbishop Marlowe.
(b) Bishop John Paul.
(c) Friar Tuck.
(d) Bishop Ambrose.

7. Instead of studying the literal meaning of a phrase what is important to study?
(a) The implied meaning, though it is also literal.
(b) The individual meanings of the words in the phrase.
(c) The spirit and intent of the Scriptures.
(d) It is better not to study, but to pray for enlightment.

8. Why does he prefer that sect at that time in his life?
(a) Because it did not ask much of him.
(b) Because it seemed more logical.
(c) Because it fit in better with his lifestyle at that time.
(d) Because it was simple.

9. What is something Augustine finds very difficult to follow in real life?
(a) It is necessary to follow the word of God, and not even be tied down to one's own flesh.
(b) The Golden Rule.
(c) Monogamy.
(d) The precepts of the Manicheans.

10. At the beginning of this book, where is Augustine a student?
(a) School of Rhetoric in Carthage.
(b) Lysortium Rhetorium in Rome.
(c) School of Philosophy in Athens.
(d) He is out of school.

11. At one point, what does Augustine believe about evil?
(a) That it is as powerful a force as God.
(b) That it is just one aspect of God.
(c) That it is an independant force.
(d) That it doesn't exist.

12. What does Augustine struggle to learn in school?
(a) To learn the rules of mathematics.
(b) To get along well with his classmates.
(c) To learn Latin grammar and works by Virgil, such as the Aeneid.
(d) To be humble when he knows more than the teachers.

13. Who offers Augustine explanations of the Manichean philosophy which does not satisfy Augustine?
(a) Remeer.
(b) Marlette.
(c) Faustus.
(d) Cicero.

14. Where does Monica want Augustine to be?
(a) In Rome.
(b) In the Vatican.
(c) In Florence.
(d) In Carthage and Africa.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What sort of philosophy does Augustine have?

2. What book does Augustine understand that challenges many people?

3. What does Augustine resent about his studies of Latin and Greek literature?

4. What is one of Augustine's future struggles in life?

5. What does Augustine teach?

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