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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the purpose of Gaunilo's piece?
(a) To complain.
(b) To question God.
(c) To have Anselm clarify his beliefs.
(d) To critique Anselm's beliefs.

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

3. Man would never have ________ unless he sinned.
(a) Died.
(b) Fear.
(c) Love.
(d) Anger.

4. Does Christ die because of a debt He has incurred?
(a) Most likely.
(b) Yes.
(c) No.
(d) Maybe.

5. How is "Cur Deus Homo" translated?
(a) "How God Became Man."
(b) "Who is God?"
(c) "Why God Became Man."
(d) "When Will God Become Man?"

6. The island Gaunilo describes is greater than an island with all of the Island's properties save what?
(a) Faith.
(b) Understanding.
(c) Existence.
(d) Love.

7. God would not be good if He did not at least try to do what?
(a) Reconcile humanity to Himself.
(b) Be fair.
(c) Save His Son.
(d) Understand humanity.

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

9. God must exist. Why?
(a) If He did not, we have not purpose for living.
(b) If He did not, we would not exist.
(c) If He did not, the world would be in chaos.
(d) If He did not, He would not be the greatest conceivable being.

10. He must be born of a woman. Why?
(a) So he could be on earth, first, as a baby.
(b) Otherwise, He would be disconnected from a human lineage.
(c) So God would know what it was like to have a son.
(d) So others would trust Him.

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

12. Why was Cur Deus Homo written?
(a) To support the Monologium.
(b) To answer one question.
(c) To support the Proslogium.
(d) To answer various questions.

13. Why is this island greater than an island with all of the Island's properties save the answer to number 158?
(a) Island possesses faith and an Island without faith does not.
(b) Island possesses existence and an Island without existence does not.
(c) Island possesses love and an Island without love does not.
(d) Island possesses understanding and an Island without understanding does not.

14. On Gaunilo's view, why does the argument fail?
(a) It does not make sense.
(b) It confuses what exists in the understanding with what exists in reality.
(c) It is not supported by the Bible.
(d) Anselm believes he is always right.

15. 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 understand than not to understand.
(d) Since it is greater to have faith than not to have faith.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Cur Deus Homo written?

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

3. God possesses ____________, and a being can have all of God's properties but this.

4. We should believe in the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit in the same way, ________________.

5. Should we believe in the Trinity?

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