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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Men should not expect to understand Him until he has lived with his belief for how long?
(a) Twenty years.
(b) A short time.
(c) A lifetime.
(d) Some time.

2. What is the only absolutely true thing that can be said of God?
(a) He is the only God.
(b) He is what He is.
(c) He can be understood.
(d) Everyone believes He exists.

3. Chapter thirty-six explains that God creates and knows His creation in what kind of manner?
(a) A distant manner.
(b) A comprehensible manner.
(c) An unusual manner.
(d) An incomprehensible manner.

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

5. Chapters twenty-five through twenty-nine discuss the fact that God is an unchanging ____________.
(a) Father.
(b) Son.
(c) Substance.
(d) Friend.

Short Answer Questions

1. Anselm believes that his project of proving God's existence is a case of "________ seeking understanding."

2. Can two objects both possess goodness, but to differing degrees?

3. Is this "Word" the same substance as Himself?

4. Why is the answer to number 33 this type of goodness?

5. He exclaims that the mind was created to do what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are Chapters 1 and 2 prefigure the ontological argument and also are importantly different?

2. What do Chapters 3 and 4 argue?

3. What does Anselm say about the two types of conceivability?

4. How is God a substance? What does Anselm have to say about God as a substance?

5. Can God, according to Anselm, create from nothing?

6. How does Jesus derive existence from God? Why?

7. Why does Anselm say that only a fool would not believe in God?

8. What is learned about the Holy Spirit?

9. What does Anselm say about God's properties as Father and Son?

10. How is God a substance and also transcends substance?

(see the answer keys)

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