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

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

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Chapter five argues that this being must exist through what?
(a) Itself.
(b) Others.
(c) Human beings.
(d) Gods and men.

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

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

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

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

6. Chapters twenty-five through twenty-nine discuss the fact that God is an unchanging ____________.
(a) Son.
(b) Father.
(c) Substance.
(d) Friend.

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

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

9. Can created substances be accurately compared to Him?
(a) Yes.
(b) Probably.
(c) No.
(d) Maybe.

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

11. God has no ___________________.
(a) Feelings.
(b) Beginning.
(c) End.
(d) Beginning or end.

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

13. 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) "Born."
(b) "Ridiculed."
(c) "Killed."
(d) "Begotten."

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

15. On Anselm's view, when we do not ______________ the concept of God, only then can we conceive of Him not existing.
(a) Read.
(b) Hear.
(c) Believe.
(d) Understand.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter one transitions into an exhortation to believers and what prayer to God?

2. The expression of God is identical with _______.

3. God is best understood as existing every "where" rather than in every _________.

4. Is God properly listed among common substances?

5. God is identical with what?

(see the answer keys)

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