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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. Why must God exist?
(a) The world would fall apart without Him.
(b) He is the standard by which all other things are judged.
(c) To say He does not exist is blasphemous.
(d) We would not exist without Him.

2. To be God is to be what?
(a) The thing that has no equal and no superior.
(b) The leader of the gods.
(c) Cool.
(d) The only god.

3. God's idea of Himself is equivalent to what?
(a) Oneself.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Himself.
(d) Ourselves.

4. As what does the Word exist?
(a) An idea.
(b) Nothing.
(c) A place.
(d) A thing.

5. The expression of God is identical with _______.
(a) Angels.
(b) God.
(c) Man.
(d) Satan.

Short Answer Questions

1. Men should not expect to understand Him until he has lived with his belief for how long?

2. All beings others than God exist through whom?

3. The existence of everything else is caused to be by what?

4. Why does Anselm respond the way he does in the answer to number 56?

5. God has how many ultimate descriptions?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the "Word?" How does Anselm come to explain this?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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