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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. God the Father and the Son both possess properties together. Does God also possess separate properties?
(a) Maybe.
(b) Yes.
(c) Not at first.
(d) No.

2. God is defined as the being "than which ______________ can be conceived."
(a) Everything lesser.
(b) Nothing lesser.
(c) Everything greater.
(d) Nothing greater.

3. Acquiring accidents is a process of ___________.
(a) Mistake.
(b) Habit.
(c) Learning.
(d) Change.

4. Could God have been brought into existence by anything else?
(a) Maybe.
(b) Yes.
(c) No.
(d) Most likely.

5. Chapter five argues that this being must exist through what?
(a) Itself.
(b) Gods and men.
(c) Human beings.
(d) Others.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter thirty-six explains that God creates and knows His creation in what kind of manner?

2. Chapter two points out that only who would not believe in God?

3. How does God exist?

4. God's conception of Himself and His relation to the world is The Word that has always existed where?

5. Humans were created primarily to do what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Anselm say in Chapter 1?

2. What do Chapters 1 through 6 describe?

3. What does Chapter 15 argue?

4. What set of problems does Chapter 9 of the Proslogium introduced? How does Chapter 10 add to this?

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

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

7. How does Anselm explain that God creates from nothing but that everything, in a sense, already exists?

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

9. What do Chapters 59 through 63 describe?

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

(see the answer keys)

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