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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. All things live through whom?
(a) Angels.
(b) Man.
(c) God.
(d) Satan.

2. Everything God created existed in one sense already. How?
(a) There were pieces of the creations lying around.
(b) God experimented prior to creating various beings.
(c) They were ideas in the mind of God.
(d) On another planet.

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

4. We can understand aspects of Him, but we cannot do what?
(a) Understand Him in his totality.
(b) Listen to Him.
(c) Make connections between those aspects.
(d) Love aspects of Him.

5. Anselm knows what he believes, but he also wants to know what?
(a) Whether he should believe it.
(b) Why it is true.
(c) Why he believes it.
(d) What he does not believe.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapters one and two _____________ the ontological argument.

2. To be God is to be what?

3. The _______________ of dignity and existence of all things comes in degrees.

4. 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.

5. God has no ___________________.

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Anselm say about the two types of conceivability?

2. How is God a substance? What does Anselm have to say about God as a substance?

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

4. What do Chapters 59 through 63 describe?

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

6. What does Anselm say in Chapter 1?

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

8. Why does Anselm say that only a fool would not believe in God?

9. Give an example showing why God must exist.

10. What does Chapter 5 argue?

(see the answer keys)

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