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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Chapter eight explains how God can be compassionate but also lack what?
(a) Justice.
(b) Love.
(c) Understanding.
(d) The feeling of compassion.

2. This _________ contains all ideals; this being is God.
(a) Ideal.
(b) Thought.
(c) Hope.
(d) Prayer.

3. Humans were created primarily to do what?
(a) Exist.
(b) Play.
(c) See God.
(d) Relax.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. We can understand aspects of Him, but we cannot do what?

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

3. As what does the Word exist?

4. Through ________ man suffers in misery.

5. Will anything exist before or after Him?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Anselm say about existence and the creation of beings?

2. What does Anselm say about God's properties as Father and Son?

3. What does Anselm say about God's eternality and omnipresence?

4. How does Anselm explain that God creates from nothing but that everything, in a sense, already exists?

5. What challenge is raised in Chapter 16 of the Monologium?

6. What is the only absolutely true thing that can be said about God? What might this mean?

7. Give an example showing why God must exist.

8. What is learned about the Holy Spirit?

9. How are Chapters 1 and 2 prefigure the ontological argument and also are importantly different?

10. What does Anselm say in Chapter 1?

(see the answer keys)

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