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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. Can created substances be accurately compared to Him?
(a) Probably.
(b) Yes.
(c) Maybe.
(d) No.

2. All things live through whom?
(a) Man.
(b) Angels.
(c) God.
(d) Satan.

3. All beings others than God exist through whom?
(a) Man.
(b) Other gods.
(c) God.
(d) Satan.

4. Can two objects both possess goodness, but to differing degrees?
(a) No.
(b) Yes.
(c) Maybe.
(d) Sometimes.

5. Chapter eight explains how God can be compassionate but also lack what?
(a) Justice.
(b) Love.
(c) Understanding.
(d) The feeling of compassion.

Short Answer Questions

1. God exists in every place and time. Can he also exist in neither any place nor any time?

2. Is God properly listed among common substances?

3. When we compare two objects, we must implicitly rely on what?

4. Some being had to __________ being.

5. What must exist to make choices between two or more things?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is learned about the Holy Spirit?

2. What does Anselm say about God's eternality and omnipresence?

3. What is the only absolutely true thing that can be said about God? What might this mean?

4. What do Chapters 3 and 4 argue?

5. What do Chapters 59 through 63 describe?

6. How does Anselm begin the Proslogium?

7. What does Anselm say about the essence of both Father and Son?

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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