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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The book is divided up into two, the first of which addresses what problem?
(a) What God might have
(b) Why so few humans believe in sin.
(c) How mankind came to be so deep in sin.
(d) Why atonement needs to occur, and how it could occur if it were to occur.

2. Souls will be awarded according to what?
(a) Revenge.
(b) Justice.
(c) Love.
(d) Hope.

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

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

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

6. The rational mind is the closest method of approaching who or what?
(a) Ourselves.
(b) Mankind.
(c) God.
(d) Nirvana.

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

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

9. Why must the Island have this property?
(a) Since it is greater to exist than not to exist.
(b) Since it is greater to have faith than not to have faith.
(c) Since it is greater to understand than not to understand.
(d) Since it is greater to love than not to love.

10. Why does God do what He does in the answer to number 99?
(a) He hates to see us in pain.
(b) He is happy.
(c) He loves making people.
(d) He is blessed all the more.

11. When men are resurrected, will they have the same bodies they had in this world?
(a) Probably not.
(b) Yes.
(c) Maybe.
(d) No.

12. Anselm argues that human salvation follows from Christ's death by what?
(a) Hope for His resurrection.
(b) Fear in one's own death.
(c) Faith in His resurrection.
(d) Faith in His death for humanity's sins.

13. How is atonement possible?
(a) Through prayer.
(b) Through good works.
(c) Through God's mercy.
(d) Through apologies.

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

15. Chapters three through eight discuss the ___________ of the "infidels" to the theory of the atonement.
(a) Objections.
(b) Acceptance.
(c) Thoughts.
(d) Understanding.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Boso's role?

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

3. About what is Boso worried?

4. Chapters four and five argue that God must complete His original plan to do what?

5. Should we believe in the Trinity?

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