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

2. Anselm argues that the Word "derives" existence from God through His birth, but not His __________.
(a) Death.
(b) Life.
(c) Family.
(d) Creation.

3. Is God properly listed among common substances?
(a) Maybe.
(b) Yes.
(c) Probably.
(d) No.

4. Everything God created existed in one sense already. How?
(a) They were ideas in the mind of God.
(b) There were pieces of the creations lying around.
(c) God experimented prior to creating various beings.
(d) On another planet.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why must God exist?

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

3. God and His Word bear the same relationship to all creation. Do they sustain these relations separately?

4. There must exist a being that is what?

5. Does God derive His existence through nothing?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How and why does God lack feelings of emotions? Of what else is he also incapable?

3. What does Chapter 6 maintain?

4. What do Chapters 1 through 6 describe?

5. How does Anselm begin the Proslogium?

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

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

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

9. Give an example showing why God must exist.

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

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