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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Chapter eight explains how God can be compassionate but also lack what?
(a) The feeling of compassion.
(b) Understanding.
(c) Love.
(d) Justice.

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

4. Why must God exist?
(a) To say He does not exist is blasphemous.
(b) He is the standard by which all other things are judged.
(c) We would not exist without Him.
(d) The world would fall apart without Him.

5. Why must the answer to number 35 exist?
(a) Otherwise we could not understand goodness.
(b) Otherwise all things would be good.
(c) Otherwise we could not truly say of anything that it is better than another thing.
(d) Otherwise God would not hear our call for help.

6. The existence of everything else is caused to be by what?
(a) An accident.
(b) Something else.
(c) Evolution.
(d) An explosion.

7. God's idea of Himself is equivalent to what?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Ourselves.
(c) Oneself.
(d) Himself.

8. All things live through whom?
(a) Angels.
(b) God.
(c) Man.
(d) Satan.

9. The expression of God is identical with _______.
(a) God.
(b) Angels.
(c) Satan.
(d) Man.

10. Anselm begins the Proslogium in the preface by stating his dissatisfaction with _______________ and his rationale for writing the Proslogium.
(a) The Proslogium.
(b) The Triologium.
(c) The Duologium.
(d) The Monologium.

11. In chapter seven, Anselm argues that God is not only omnipotent but incapable of certain things. What can He not do?
(a) He cannot be tricked by evil and He cannot have complete power.
(b) He cannot do evil and He cannot fail to have maximal power.
(c) He cannot force us to believe and He cannot bend our wills.
(d) He cannot care about others and He cannot hear our pleas.

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

13. Should the believer, once God has rescued him, question his belief?
(a) Yes.
(b) No.
(c) Often.
(d) Sometimes.

14. 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.

15. Does God have beginning and/or end?
(a) No.
(b) Sometimes.
(c) Only at first.
(d) Yes.

Short Answer Questions

1. God is not just with respect to _______. He is just to Himself because He does what is perfectly good.

2. To be God is to be what?

3. Why can we as humans not win back our salvation?

4. God exists in every place and time. Can he also exist in neither any place nor any time?

5. Why does Anselm respond the way he does in the answer to number 56?

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