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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When men are resurrected, will they have the same bodies they had in this world?
(a) No.
(b) Maybe.
(c) Yes.
(d) Probably not.

2. What document is by Gaunilo?
(a) Jesus, the Island.
(b) The greatest conceivable island.
(c) Only Fools Rush In.
(d) In Behalf of the Fool.

3. Souls will be awarded according to what?
(a) Justice.
(b) Revenge.
(c) Hope.
(d) Love.

4. He gives the famous counterexample of what?
(a) The greatest conceivable island.
(b) Man, the fool.
(c) Jesus as an island.
(d) The least conceivable island.

5. Does Christ die because of a debt He has incurred?
(a) Most likely.
(b) No.
(c) Maybe.
(d) Yes.

6. What is the document by Anselm?
(a) His reply to Gaunilo's argument.
(b) Jesus, the Island.
(c) In Behalf of the Fool.
(d) The greatest conceivable island.

7. God can be properly called what, in regards to the Trinity?
(a) Three inequal parts.
(b) Three.
(c) Both three and one.
(d) All in One.

8. Chapters one, two and three explain that man was initially made holy so that he could do what?
(a) Serve God.
(b) Fear God.
(c) Enjoy God.
(d) Have fun.

9. How is atonement possible?
(a) Through God's mercy.
(b) Through good works.
(c) Through prayer.
(d) Through apologies.

10. How is Cur Deus Homo written?
(a) As a play.
(b) As a dialogue.
(c) As an extended argument.
(d) As a poem.

11. To what is Gaunilo's piece a response?
(a) Anselm's ontological argument in the Monologium.
(b) Anselm's ontological argument in the Proslogium.
(c) Anselm's ontological argument in the Cur Deus Homo.
(d) Anselm's ontological argument in the Greatest Conceivable Island.

12. He must be born of a woman. Why?
(a) So God would know what it was like to have a son.
(b) Otherwise, He would be disconnected from a human lineage.
(c) So others would trust Him.
(d) So he could be on earth, first, as a baby.

13. The rational mind is the closest method of approaching who or what?
(a) Mankind.
(b) Nirvana.
(c) Ourselves.
(d) God.

14. When the soul loves God, He is blessed and God does what?
(a) Returns love to His creatures.
(b) Smiles.
(c) Ends pain.
(d) Makes more humans.

15. Infidels argue that Christ's condescension to not only become man but to act as he did was what?
(a) Exciting.
(b) Unusual.
(c) Improper.
(d) Surprising.

Short Answer Questions

1. Man would never have ________ unless he sinned.

2. Can One can infer the existence of X in reality from its existence in the understanding?

3. God is greater than what?

4. What must He be in order to atone for men as a species?

5. Anselm turns to argue that one should believe what?

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