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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. There must exist a being that is what?
(a) Created.
(b) The source of all existence.
(c) Good.
(d) Kind.

2. 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?
(a) He is not sure if this is true.
(b) He believes this to be true.
(c) He denies this to be true.
(d) He will test this to see if it is true.

3. As what does the Word exist?
(a) A thing.
(b) A place.
(c) An idea.
(d) Nothing.

4. God exists in every place and time. Can he also exist in neither any place nor any time?
(a) Most likely.
(b) Maybe.
(c) Yes.
(d) No.

5. In chapter forty-one we discover that God "begets" in the most perfect and true way but is also __________ in the most perfect and true way.
(a) "Begotten."
(b) "Ridiculed."
(c) "Born."
(d) "Killed."

6. Humans were created primarily to do what?
(a) See God.
(b) Play.
(c) Relax.
(d) Exist.

7. The _______________ of dignity and existence of all things comes in degrees.
(a) Inequality.
(b) Sense.
(c) Equality.
(d) Need.

8. In chapter seven, Anselm argues that all beings other than God derive their nature from whom?
(a) God.
(b) Man.
(c) Satan.
(d) Other gods.

9. God expresses Himself through a "____________ Word."
(a) Strange.
(b) Multi-faceted.
(c) Single.
(d) Coeternal.

10. Is God properly listed among common substances?
(a) No.
(b) Maybe.
(c) Probably.
(d) Yes.

11. Anselm argues that the Word "derives" existence from God through His birth, but not His __________.
(a) Creation.
(b) Death.
(c) Family.
(d) Life.

12. What does this Word help to "express" or create?
(a) Many thing.s
(b) Nothing.
(c) Some things.
(d) The world.

13. Why can we as humans not win back our salvation?
(a) We do not deserve salvation.
(b) We do not want our salvation.
(c) We are so corrupt.
(d) We are too weak.

14. How is the answer to number 59 stated in the Old Testament?
(a) I AM BELIEVED BY ALL.
(b) I AM THE ONLY GOD.
(c) I AM WHO I AM.
(d) I AM UNDERSTANDING.

15. How does God exist?
(a) Complexly.
(b) Surprisingly.
(c) Surely.
(d) Simply.

Short Answer Questions

1. God and His Word bear the same relationship to all creation. Do they sustain these relations separately?

2. Some being had to __________ being.

3. Chapters one and two _____________ the ontological argument.

4. The first man, Adam, discarded a state of unity with God which was __________ to keep.

5. This ideal of goodness must be ____________ goodness.

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