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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. This _________ contains all ideals; this being is God.
(a) Hope.
(b) Prayer.
(c) Thought.
(d) Ideal.

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

3. Chapter two points out that only who would not believe in God?
(a) Fallen angels.
(b) A fool.
(c) Satan.
(d) The smart.

4. Chapter forty-nine begins the explanation of the third element of the Trinity. What is this third element?
(a) Jesus Christ.
(b) The angels.
(c) The Holy Spirit.
(d) Man.

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

6. This being exists in the ________ sense.
(a) Maximal.
(b) Minimal.
(c) Sixth.
(d) Common.

7. God the Father and the Son both possess properties together. Does God also possess separate properties?
(a) Maybe.
(b) No.
(c) Not at first.
(d) Yes.

8. There must be an ideal by which to do what?
(a) Understand all things.
(b) Create.
(c) Consider.
(d) Compare all things.

9. Anselm's arguments will be consistent with what?
(a) Other arguments.
(b) Some Christian denominations.
(c) Most views.
(d) Christian tradition.

10. We can understand aspects of Him, but we cannot do what?
(a) Understand Him in his totality.
(b) Make connections between those aspects.
(c) Listen to Him.
(d) Love aspects of Him.

11. God and His idea of Himself exist as what?
(a) No substances.
(b) Many substances.
(c) One substance.
(d) A few substances.

12. Through ________ man suffers in misery.
(a) Sin.
(b) Pain.
(c) Doubt.
(d) Fear.

13. What must exist to make choices between two or more things?
(a) Prayer.
(b) Goodness.
(c) An ideal.
(d) Thought.

14. God's conception of Himself and His relation to the world is The Word that has always existed where?
(a) With Him.
(b) Near Him.
(c) Far from Him.
(d) In front of Him.

15. Why does Anselm respond the way he does in the answer to number 56?
(a) These properties are representations of God, at the least and should be tested.
(b) These properties are a part of God, as well as representations of God, so he is not sure if this is enough.
(c) These properties are only representations of Him to us, and not the whole being.
(d) These properties are a part of God, therefore, they can explain who He is.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapters one and two argue that a being which is "best, and greatest and highest of all existing beings" _________ exist.

2. Chapters eighteen through twenty-four describe God's what?

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

4. Anselm believes that his project of proving God's existence is a case of "________ seeking understanding."

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

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