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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. By what does Augustine feel overwhelmed?
(a) By the power of sin and death.
(b) By the task set before him by God.
(c) By his friend's miraculous recovery.
(d) By his inability to corrupt his friends faith.

2. What does Augustine refuse?
(a) Animal sacrifice for help.
(b) His mother's suggestion that he leave Carthage.
(c) His best friend's position at the college.
(d) A woman's offer of marriage.

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

4. What is the Fables of Manes?
(a) A book of fables about the creation of the earth.
(b) A book that tells how to care for horses.
(c) A book written by Aesop.
(d) A book of the Manicheans.

5. Who writes Hortensius?
(a) Plato.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Homer.
(d) Cicero.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sort of philosophy does Augustine have?

2. Who is Adeodatus?

3. What does a Christian priest predict of Augustine?

4. What do the Manicheans believe when one their "Elect" digest food gifts?

5. What is Augustine's native language?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the questions Augustine have about God and the world affect his faith?

2. What are Augustine's reflections on life and death?

3. As a young man how does Augustine feel about love and what doesn't he understand about it?

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

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

6. What is Augustine's thinking on marriage?

7. Augustine says he wrote Confessions for what reason?

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

9. What gives Augustine an excuse to continue following his baser desires?

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

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