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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. What does the Roman empress Justina favor?
(a) The Pope over the Greek gods.
(b) The Arian heresy over Christianity.
(c) Celtic gods.
(d) The Greek gods over those of the Romans.

2. What does Augustine wonder about concerning God before creation?
(a) If God creates god and Satan creates evil at the same time to cancel each other out.
(b) If God created himself at the same time as creation.
(c) If God really created everything.
(d) If God existed doing nothing.

3. How can memory make you unhappy?
(a) Not letting go of the negative emotion with a memory.
(b) Remembering the slights of others and feeling resentful.
(c) By remembering something in the past which disgusts you now.
(d) Thinking about what might have been.

4. Who is Simplicianus?
(a) Augustine's mother's older brother.
(b) Augustine's new born son.
(c) An old man and a teacher of Ambrose.
(d) One of the teachers in Carthage whom Augustine despises.

5. From what does Augustine decide to withdraw?
(a) From the Catholic church.
(b) From his teaching position.
(c) From his reading of philosophy.
(d) From his mistress.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the mind retain in memory?

2. What is different between scripture and the books of the Platonists?

3. What differs for each individual and even at different periods of a person's life?

4. Besides concrete detail, what else does the mind remember?

5. What does scripture not discuss?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Augustine say about writing his confession?

2. What does Augustine say about music and pleasure?

3. What does Augustine say about the heavens?

4. What happened at the church in Milan and what Christian tradition was started there?

5. Why does Augustine feel a sort of schizophrenia?

6. What does Augustine say about memory?

7. What does Augustine say about formlessness?

8. Augustine says why people hate the truth. What does he say about the truth?

9. By the beginning of Book VII, how does Augustine begin to think of God?

10. What does Augustine say about the past, future and present?

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