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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. This being is the best of all beings for what reason?
(a) It is the most compassionate of all beings.
(b) It is the best of all beings.
(c) It is the source of all being.
(d) It is the smartest of all beings.

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

4. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God"follows what Gospel?
(a) The Gospel of Matthew.
(b) The Gospel of John.
(c) The Gospel of Mark.
(d) The Gospel of Luke.

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

6. Chapters eighteen through twenty-four describe God's what?
(a) Desire for justice.
(b) Inability to feel compassion.
(c) Eternality and omnipresence.
(d) Love and kindness.

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

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

9. Chapters one and two argue that a being which is "best, and greatest and highest of all existing beings" _________ exist.
(a) Might.
(b) Do not.
(c) Must.
(d) Could.

10. Chapters one and two _____________ the ontological argument.
(a) Explain.
(b) Confuse.
(c) Prefigure.
(d) Consider.

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

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

13. When we compare two objects, we must implicitly rely on what?
(a) Someone to tell us which is better.
(b) The object which is better to stand out.
(c) Our common sense to distinguish which is better.
(d) Some standard or ideal to distinguish which is better.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapters one through six describe the relationship of God to what?

2. Does God derive His existence through nothing?

3. God and His idea of Himself exist as what?

4. In chapter seven, Anselm argues that all beings other than God derive their nature from whom?

5. How does God exist?

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