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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. How does Augustine see Christianity as being deficient?
(a) It doesn't promote change through violence or any means possible.
(b) It fails to impress Augustine with its superior viewpoint to the many other religions and sects available.
(c) It is too improbable.
(d) It is too simplistic.

2. What does Augustine fear that the pagan myths that he learned studying literature led to?
(a) His personal corruption.
(b) A slovenly attitude towards studying.
(c) Being unable to pray for years.
(d) A lack of faith in the true God.

3. Upon what does Augustine reflect as to the nature of life and death?
(a) Life is only a cruel joke and death is the punchline.
(b) It is inevitable but only controlled by fate.
(c) Time passes, and people die, and that is the nature of things.
(d) God controls all aspects of life and death.

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

5. What do the Manicheans believe when one their "Elect" digest food gifts?
(a) The Elect move forward on the wheel of time.
(b) The gift is transmuted into divine energy.
(c) The gifts' energy feeds the universe.
(d) Angels or spirits are released to the Manichean's benefit.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Augustine go to study?

2. With what is Augustine preoccupied?

3. Why does Augustine wish his family had arranged a marriage for him?

4. Who joins Augustus in Milan?

5. Instead of learning Christian stories, what does Augustine learn?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Augustine feel the pear tree incident symbolized?

2. What did Augustine wonder about in relationship to God and the world and what are a couple of the questions he asked?

3. Where does Augustine want to move and why?

4. How does Augustine's initial conversion to Christianity come about?

5. What kind of pressure does Augustine feel as a young person and what does he do about it?

6. What does Augustine decide about reading Scripture and interpreting it?

7. How has Augustine solved the problem of his lust and what is the result of this solution?

8. What did Augustine write about that involved a theft of pears and how did he feel about it?

9. Where is Augustine a student in Carthage and why does he study so diligently?

10. What is Augustine's primary thoughts of when he arrives in Carthage and what does he do with them?

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