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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Anselm knows what he believes, but he also wants to know what?
(a) Whether he should believe it.
(b) What he does not believe.
(c) Why he believes it.
(d) Why it is true.

2. Does God have beginning and/or end?
(a) Yes.
(b) No.
(c) Only at first.
(d) Sometimes.

3. We can understand aspects of Him, but we cannot do what?
(a) Understand Him in his totality.
(b) Make connections between those aspects.
(c) Listen to Him.
(d) Love aspects of Him.

4. Chapters one and two argue that a being which is "best, and greatest and highest of all existing beings" _________ exist.
(a) Could.
(b) Might.
(c) Do not.
(d) Must.

5. God the Father and the Son both possess properties together. Does God also possess separate properties?
(a) No.
(b) Not at first.
(c) Yes.
(d) Maybe.

6. What does this Word help to "express" or create?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Some things.
(c) Many thing.s
(d) The world.

7. This being is the best of all beings for what reason?
(a) It is the source of all being.
(b) It is the best of all beings.
(c) It is the smartest of all beings.
(d) It is the most compassionate of all beings.

8. Is this word like the name of created beings?
(a) No.
(b) Most likely.
(c) Maybe.
(d) Yes.

9. We can only ascribe certain properties to God within what?
(a) Reason.
(b) Our understanding.
(c) His understanding.
(d) The Bible.

10. Anselm believes that his project of proving God's existence is a case of "________ seeking understanding."
(a) Disbelief.
(b) The unsure.
(c) Despair.
(d) Faith.

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

12. All beings others than God exist through whom?
(a) Man.
(b) God.
(c) Satan.
(d) Other gods.

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

14. What does the answer to number 86 follow?
(a) The Lord's Prayer.
(b) The Ten Commandments.
(c) The Nicene Creed.
(d) The Apostles' Creed.

15. Chapter forty-nine begins the explanation of the third element of the Trinity. What is this third element?
(a) The angels.
(b) The Holy Spirit.
(c) Jesus Christ.
(d) Man.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter one transitions into an exhortation to believers and what prayer to God?

2. Why does Anselm respond the way he does in the answer to number 56?

3. Chapter sixteen raises a challenge: since God is equivalent to all his properties, can't we understand God when we understand these properties? How does Anselm respond?

4. Does God derive His existence through nothing?

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

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