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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The _______________ of dignity and existence of all things comes in degrees.
(a) Sense.
(b) Inequality.
(c) Equality.
(d) Need.

2. God must create from what?
(a) Some things.
(b) Few things.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Everything.

3. Anselm argues that the argument in number 47 is what?
(a) Inconceivable.
(b) Conceivable.
(c) Wrong.
(d) Insane.

4. Men should not expect to understand Him until he has lived with his belief for how long?
(a) Twenty years.
(b) Some time.
(c) A short time.
(d) A lifetime.

5. On Anselm's view, when we do not ______________ the concept of God, only then can we conceive of Him not existing.
(a) Read.
(b) Understand.
(c) Believe.
(d) Hear.

6. What is the only method of creating the world?
(a) Slowly.
(b) Quickly.
(c) Through evolution.
(d) Through the Word.

7. Why must the answer to number 35 exist?
(a) Otherwise we could not truly say of anything that it is better than another thing.
(b) Otherwise we could not understand goodness.
(c) Otherwise God would not hear our call for help.
(d) Otherwise all things would be good.

8. God expresses Himself through a "____________ Word."
(a) Strange.
(b) Single.
(c) Coeternal.
(d) Multi-faceted.

9. The first man, Adam, discarded a state of unity with God which was __________ to keep.
(a) Somewhat difficult.
(b) Hard.
(c) Unimportant.
(d) Easy.

10. God exists in every place and time. Can he also exist in neither any place nor any time?
(a) Most likely.
(b) No.
(c) Yes.
(d) Maybe.

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

12. Why is the answer to number 33 this type of goodness?
(a) Only some things can be good.
(b) If it were not, it would be ideal.
(c) Only one type of goodness exists.
(d) If it were not, it would not be an ideal.

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

14. Chapters one through six describe the relationship of God to what?
(a) Satan.
(b) His existence.
(c) His angels.
(d) Man.

15. God and His Word bear the same relationship to all creation. Do they sustain these relations separately?
(a) No.
(b) Yes.
(c) Maybe.
(d) Probably.

Short Answer Questions

1. Can created substances be accurately compared to Him?

2. God's conception of Himself and His relation to the world is The Word that has always existed where?

3. God is best understood as existing every "where" rather than in every _________.

4. Everything God created existed in one sense already. How?

5. In chapter forty-one we discover that God "begets" in the most perfect and true way but is also __________ in the most perfect and true way.

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