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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Augustine resent about his studies of Latin and Greek literature?
(a) How it took up so much of his youth.
(b) How the teachers thought they were so important.
(c) How it alienates him from his classmates.
(d) How he was led astray morally by some of the stories.

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

3. What does a Christian priest predict of Augustine?
(a) He will never live long enough to repent.
(b) He will die in his sins.
(c) He will change and convert to Christianity.
(d) He will become a great defender of the Greek gods.

4. What book does Augustine understand that challenges many people?
(a) The Categories that Govern the Stars.
(b) The Ten Categories.
(c) The Ten Comandments of Manichean Life.
(d) The Categorical Allusion.

5. What is the name of a book Augustine wrote that he later lost?
(a) "Fitting One's Soul in the Earthly Physical Life."
(b) "The Fitting Way of Life and Death."
(c) "The Beautiful and the Fitting."
(d) "The Beautiful Fits All Souls."

6. What does Ambrose say to bring to the tombs of the saints?
(a) Animal sacrifices.
(b) Food.
(c) Prayers.
(d) Money.

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

8. What does Augustine feel when he reads of Zeus engaging in fornication and being powerful?
(a) He wants to do these deeds.
(b) Repulsed.
(c) Curious as to why a god would do that.
(d) Indifferent.

9. What sort of philosophy does Augustine have?
(a) Materialistic.
(b) Hedonist.
(c) Spiritual.
(d) Fundamentalist.

10. Who does Augustine arrange to marry?
(a) No one; he decides to never marry.
(b) A girl who is two years underage.
(c) A woman he knew from childhood.
(d) A woman he meets there in Milan who is a teacher also.

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

12. What is Augustine thinking of doing?
(a) Taking vows as a monk.
(b) Going on a mission to Britain.
(c) Moving back to Carthage.
(d) Marrying.

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

14. Besides thievery, in what is Augustine involved?
(a) Pranks.
(b) Cheating on his exams.
(c) Murder.
(d) Gambling.

15. Why doesn't Ambrose want wine brought to the tombs?
(a) It will ferment more and create bad smells.
(b) It encourages sloth.
(c) It may encourage drunkeness.
(d) He doesn't mind wine at the tombs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What author does Augustine dislike?

2. What interests Augustine more than higher goals or values?

3. Why should Monica think Rome is a good place for Augustine?

4. What happens when men act wickedly?

5. How does Augustine leave Carthage and his mother?

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