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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 atonement possible?
(a) Through prayer.
(b) Through good works.
(c) Through apologies.
(d) Through God's mercy.

2. How is man alienated from God?
(a) By his hate.
(b) By his ignorance.
(c) By his sin.
(d) By his fear.

3. Why must the Island have this property?
(a) Since it is greater to love than not to love.
(b) Since it is greater to exist than not to exist.
(c) Since it is greater to have faith than not to have faith.
(d) Since it is greater to understand than not to understand.

4. Can multiple persons incarnate as one person?
(a) Yes.
(b) Probably.
(c) Maybe.
(d) No.

5. The second book shows how Jesus could do what?
(a) Make satisfaction for the sins of humanity.
(b) Fish.
(c) Walk on water.
(d) Raise the dead.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the reason that the rational mind was created?

2. Can One can infer the existence of X in reality from its existence in the understanding?

3. God must exist. Why?

4. The soul's efforts must be directed towards what?

5. The book is divided up into two, the first of which addresses what problem?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Chapters 4 and 5 argue?

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

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

4. What does Anselm outline to prepare the reader for Book II?

5. Why is Anselm's task of defending the Christian faith not complete?

6. What is the rational mind?

7. What is Gaunilo's argument?

8. Why must humans be saved?

9. What do Chapters 1, 2, and 3 explain?

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

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