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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Is Anselm's task of defending the Christian faith complete?
(a) No.
(b) Almost.
(c) Yes.
(d) For the most part.

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

4. God possesses ____________, and a being can have all of God's properties but this.
(a) Existence.
(b) Love.
(c) Faith.
(d) Understanding.

5. Chapter nine emphasizes that only who within the Trinity can take on the nature of man?
(a) One of the persons.
(b) None of the persons.
(c) All of the persons.
(d) Two of the persons.

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

7. The Appendix of Anselm: Basic Writings contains how many documents?
(a) Two.
(b) Three.
(c) One.
(d) Four.

8. The rational mind is the "mirror and image" of what?
(a) Oneself.
(b) The saints.
(c) All of Creation.
(d) Him.

9. Gaunilo's argument is that Anselm's Ontological Argument, if correct, proves what?
(a) Too much.
(b) Nothing.
(c) A little.
(d) Too little.

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

11. To what is Gaunilo's piece a response?
(a) Anselm's ontological argument in the Proslogium.
(b) Anselm's ontological argument in the Greatest Conceivable Island.
(c) Anselm's ontological argument in the Monologium.
(d) Anselm's ontological argument in the Cur Deus Homo.

12. About what is Boso worried?
(a) The Christian doctrines are difficult to follow.
(b) The Christian doctrines do not make sense.
(c) The Christian doctrine of Christ's atonement for sins is completely wrong.
(d) The doctrine of Christ's atonement for sins does not make sense.

13. Does Gaunilo believe Anselm's Ontological Argument to be correct?
(a) No.
(b) Mostly.
(c) Yes.
(d) Partly.

14. God can be properly called what, in regards to the Trinity?
(a) Both three and one.
(b) Three.
(c) Three inequal parts.
(d) All in One.

15. The incarnation is the method of God expressing divine ______________.
(a) Hope.
(b) Compassion.
(c) Peace.
(d) Understanding.

Short Answer Questions

1. He must be born of a woman. Why?

2. What is the document by Anselm?

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

4. Christ is limited in power and knowledge in His human nature, as we are, but why is He not miserable?

5. We must be aware that each human soul is ________________ and so will be either completely happy or completely unhappy.

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