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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Chapters six and seven argue that only who can make atonement?
(a) God.
(b) Man.
(c) A being that is simultaneously God and man.
(d) A being that is simultaneously God and angel.

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

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

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

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

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

8. There is no contradiction between any two statements about the Trinity; thus, we can understand how it is what?
(a) Odd.
(b) Insane.
(c) Not false.
(d) False.

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

10. What compels God to complete His original plan?
(a) His embarrassment.
(b) His trust in Himself.
(c) His anger towards man.
(d) His goodness.

11. Does Gaunilo believe Anselm's Ontological Argument to be correct?
(a) Yes.
(b) Mostly.
(c) No.
(d) Partly.

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

13. How does Gaunilo draw an analogy to God's existence?
(a) Man, the fool.
(b) With the greatest conceivable island.
(c) Jesus as an island.
(d) With the least conceivable island.

14. God is greater than what?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Most beings.
(c) A being with all of God's properties save one.
(d) A being with all of God's properties save two.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. We should believe in God by doing what?

2. We must be aware that each human soul is ________________ and so will be either completely happy or completely unhappy.

3. Is Boso a Christian?

4. Chapters four and five argue that God must complete His original plan to do what?

5. How is "Cur Deus Homo" translated?

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