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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About what is Boso worried?
(a) The doctrine of Christ's atonement for sins does not make sense.
(b) The Christian doctrines do not make sense.
(c) The Christian doctrine of Christ's atonement for sins is completely wrong.
(d) The Christian doctrines are difficult to follow.

2. Can one merely believe?
(a) Yes.
(b) Possibly.
(c) No, it must be accompanied by the love of God.
(d) No, one must read the Bible.

3. Man would never have ________ unless he sinned.
(a) Anger.
(b) Died.
(c) Fear.
(d) Love.

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

5. Why was Cur Deus Homo written?
(a) To support the Monologium.
(b) To answer one question.
(c) To answer various questions.
(d) To support the Proslogium.

6. What is the reason that the rational mind was created?
(a) So that it might love its Creator, God.
(b) So it can think through problems.
(c) So it does not feel emotion.
(d) So it one can be organized.

7. Can One can infer the existence of X in reality from its existence in the understanding?
(a) Maybe.
(b) Most likely.
(c) Yes.
(d) No.

8. We should believe in God by doing what?
(a) Going to church.
(b) Attending workshops.
(c) Reading the Bible.
(d) Seeking Him.

9. Anselm argues that human salvation follows from Christ's death by what?
(a) Faith in His resurrection.
(b) Fear in one's own death.
(c) Faith in His death for humanity's sins.
(d) Hope for His resurrection.

10. The rational mind is the "mirror and image" of what?
(a) Oneself.
(b) Him.
(c) All of Creation.
(d) The saints.

11. Why must the Island have this property?
(a) Since it is greater to understand than not to understand.
(b) Since it is greater to exist than not to exist.
(c) Since it is greater to have faith than not to have faith.
(d) Since it is greater to love than not to love.

12. The second book shows how Jesus could do what?
(a) Fish.
(b) Make satisfaction for the sins of humanity.
(c) Walk on water.
(d) Raise the dead.

13. Chapter one informs the reader that Christians have been ridiculed for their theory of the atonement, particularly for what idea?
(a) That God become man.
(b) That Christ died.
(c) That God is the same as Jesus Christ.
(d) That God would let His Son die.

14. What is a being with all of God's properties missing?
(a) Understanding.
(b) Love.
(c) Existence.
(d) Faith.

15. What is the purpose of Gaunilo's piece?
(a) To have Anselm clarify his beliefs.
(b) To complain.
(c) To question God.
(d) To critique Anselm's beliefs.

Short Answer Questions

1. God is greater than what?

2. How is "Cur Deus Homo" translated?

3. Is Anselm's task of defending the Christian faith complete?

4. The rational mind is the _________ part of us.

5. Chapters three through eight discuss the ___________ of the "infidels" to the theory of the atonement.

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