View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. God is greater than what?
(a) Most beings.
(b) A being with all of God's properties save two.
(c) Nothing.
(d) A being with all of God's properties save one.

2. When the soul loves God, He is blessed and God does what?
(a) Returns love to His creatures.
(b) Smiles.
(c) Makes more humans.
(d) Ends pain.

3. He gives the famous counterexample of what?
(a) The greatest conceivable island.
(b) The least conceivable island.
(c) Jesus as an island.
(d) Man, the fool.

4. How does Gaunilo draw an analogy to God's existence?
(a) Jesus as an island.
(b) With the least conceivable island.
(c) Man, the fool.
(d) With the greatest conceivable island.

5. The soul's efforts must be directed towards what?
(a) Fear.
(b) Repentance.
(c) The good.
(d) Faith.

Short Answer Questions

1. Can we truly understand the nature of the Trinity?

2. There is no contradiction between any two statements about the Trinity; thus, we can understand how it is what?

3. Chapters one, two and three explain that man was initially made holy so that he could do what?

4. We should believe in the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit in the same way, ________________.

5. Why was Cur Deus Homo written?

Short Essay Questions

1. For what have Christians been ridiculed? What is Anselm's response to this?

2. How is the Greatest Conceivable Island compared to God?

3. Was the God-man born with original sin? How does this affect Him?

4. How does Gaunilo use the greatest conceivable island?

5. In what should we believe?

6. What does Anselm say about Satan and the Fallen Angels?

7. What is the purpose of Cur Deus Homo? How do you know this? Describe this book.

8. What is Gaunilo's argument?

9. What do Chapters 3 through 8 discuss?

10. What do Chapters 4 and 5 argue?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 1,110 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample