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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The soul's efforts must be directed towards what?
(a) Fear.
(b) The good.
(c) Repentance.
(d) Faith.

3. Should we believe in the Trinity?
(a) No.
(b) Maybe.
(c) Only after one gains understanding.
(d) Yes.

4. God must exist. Why?
(a) If He did not, the world would be in chaos.
(b) If He did not, we have not purpose for living.
(c) If He did not, we would not exist.
(d) If He did not, He would not be the greatest conceivable being.

5. 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.

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

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

8. 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 one can be organized.
(d) So it does not feel emotion.

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

10. Gaunilo's argument is that Anselm's Ontological Argument, if correct, proves what?
(a) A little.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Too much.
(d) Too little.

11. God possesses ____________, and a being can have all of God's properties but this.
(a) Understanding.
(b) Faith.
(c) Love.
(d) Existence.

12. What must He be in order to atone for men as a species?
(a) An angel.
(b) A God.
(c) A man.
(d) A saint.

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

14. How is "Cur Deus Homo" translated?
(a) "When Will God Become Man?"
(b) "How God Became Man."
(c) "Why God Became Man."
(d) "Who is God?"

15. How is man alienated from God?
(a) By his sin.
(b) By his ignorance.
(c) By his hate.
(d) By his fear.

Short Answer Questions

1. God is greater than what?

2. From where does God's compulsion come to complete his original plan?

3. On Gaunilo's view, why does the argument fail?

4. There is no contradiction between any two statements about the Trinity; thus, we can understand how it is what?

5. Chapter two has Boso argue that while belief by faith must ___________ belief due to reason, faith should still seek understanding.

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