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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. Who or what is this Word?
(a) Adam.
(b) All of Creation.
(c) Jesus Christ.
(d) Man.

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

3. How is the answer to number 59 stated in the Old Testament?
(a) I AM THE ONLY GOD.
(b) I AM UNDERSTANDING.
(c) I AM BELIEVED BY ALL.
(d) I AM WHO I AM.

4. The first man, Adam, discarded a state of unity with God which was __________ to keep.
(a) Somewhat difficult.
(b) Easy.
(c) Hard.
(d) Unimportant.

5. The existence of everything else is caused to be by what?
(a) Something else.
(b) An accident.
(c) Evolution.
(d) An explosion.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter seventeen reiterates what about God?

2. Chapters one and two argue that a being which is "best, and greatest and highest of all existing beings" _________ exist.

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

4. In chapter seven, Anselm argues that all beings other than God derive their nature from whom?

5. Chapters one through six describe the relationship of God to what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Anselm begin the Proslogium?

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

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

4. What do Chapters 59 through 63 describe?

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

6. What does Chapter 5 argue?

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

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

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

10. What do Chapters 3 and 4 argue?

(see the answer keys)

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