St. Anselm: Basic Writings Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

St. Anselm
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St. Anselm: Basic Writings Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

St. Anselm
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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. This ideal of goodness must be ____________ goodness.
(a) Mighty.
(b) Strong.
(c) Perfect.
(d) Very good.

2. Anselm believes that his project of proving God's existence is a case of "________ seeking understanding."
(a) The unsure.
(b) Disbelief.
(c) Despair.
(d) Faith.

3. The Monologium is ______________ than the Proslogium.
(a) Much more tedious.
(b) Much shorter.
(c) Much more interesting.
(d) Much longer.

4. Everything God created existed in one sense already. How?
(a) They were ideas in the mind of God.
(b) God experimented prior to creating various beings.
(c) There were pieces of the creations lying around.
(d) On another planet.

5. Anselm argues that the argument in number 47 is what?
(a) Inconceivable.
(b) Wrong.
(c) Conceivable.
(d) Insane.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter thirty-six explains that God creates and knows His creation in what kind of manner?

2. Does God have beginning and/or end?

3. God is defined as the being "than which ______________ can be conceived."

4. Chapter sixteen raises a challenge: since God is equivalent to all his properties, can't we understand God when we understand these properties? How does Anselm respond?

5. Who or what is this Word?

Short Essay Questions

1. How and why does God lack feelings of emotions? Of what else is he also incapable?

2. What is learned about the Holy Spirit?

3. What does Anselm say about God's properties as Father and Son?

4. How does Anselm begin the Proslogium?

5. What do Chapters 1 through 6 describe?

6. Can God, according to Anselm, create from nothing?

7. What does Anselm say about the two types of conceivability?

8. What does Chapter 15 argue?

9. What does Anselm say in Chapter 1?

10. How are Chapters 1 and 2 prefigure the ontological argument and also are importantly different?

(see the answer keys)

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