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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What is the only method of creating the world?
(a) Through the Word.
(b) Through evolution.
(c) Slowly.
(d) Quickly.

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

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

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

8. In chapter fourteen, Anselm follows up by arguing that God can be seen but also not seen by who?
(a) Those who follow and seek Him.
(b) The angels.
(c) The devil.
(d) All of mankind.

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

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

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

12. 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.

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

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

15. Is this word like the name of created beings?
(a) No.
(b) Maybe.
(c) Yes.
(d) Most likely.

Short Answer Questions

1. The first man, Adam, discarded a state of unity with God which was __________ to keep.

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

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

4. Anselm argues that the Word "derives" existence from God through His birth, but not His __________.

5. Does God have beginning and/or end?

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