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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. What must He be in order to atone for men as a species?
(a) A saint.
(b) A man.
(c) A God.
(d) An angel.

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

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

4. What is Boso's role?
(a) He challenges all of Anselm's theories.
(b) He challenges Anselm's theory of atonement.
(c) He contradicts all that Anselm believes.
(d) He is Anselm's ally.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Is Boso a Christian?

2. The island Gaunilo describes is greater than an island with all of the Island's properties save what?

3. From where does God's compulsion come to complete his original plan?

4. How is Cur Deus Homo written?

5. How is "Cur Deus Homo" translated?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Chapters 4 and 5 argue?

2. Why is the sacrifice of the God-man so important?

3. How will souls be rewarded?

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

5. What do Chapters 3 through 8 discuss?

6. What does the Appendix of Anselm: Basic Writings contain?

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

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

9. On Gaunilo's view, why does the argument fail?

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

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