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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

3. We cannot even do what without His help?
(a) Seek God.
(b) Sin.
(c) Be influenced.
(d) Make choices.

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

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

6. Chapter thirty-six explains that God creates and knows His creation in what kind of manner?
(a) An incomprehensible manner.
(b) A distant manner.
(c) An unusual manner.
(d) A comprehensible manner.

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

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

9. Chapter seventeen reiterates what about God?
(a) His understanding.
(b) His simplicity.
(c) His justice.
(d) His love.

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

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

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

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

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

15. Anselm argues that the argument in number 47 is what?
(a) Insane.
(b) Wrong.
(c) Inconceivable.
(d) Conceivable.

Short Answer Questions

1. God must create from what?

2. God's conception of Himself and His relation to the world is The Word that has always existed where?

3. What is the only absolutely true thing that can be said of God?

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

5. All beings others than God exist through whom?

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