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

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

3. Anselm turns to argue that one should believe what?
(a) The facts he has already discussed.
(b) What one wants to believe.
(c) Some of what he has already discussed.
(d) Nothing.

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

5. They say that Christians do injustice to God by claiming what?
(a) He died.
(b) He had a son.
(c) He was born of a virgin.
(d) He was born a man.

Short Answer Questions

1. The book is divided up into two, the first of which addresses what problem?

2. Man would never have ________ unless he sinned.

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

4. Can we truly understand the nature of the Trinity?

5. Chapter nine emphasizes that only who within the Trinity can take on the nature of man?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Chapters 3 through 8 discuss?

2. In what should we believe?

3. On Gaunilo's view, why does the argument fail?

4. Why is Anselm's task of defending the Christian faith not complete?

5. What happens when the soul loves God? What happens when a soul hates God?

6. Why is the sacrifice of the God-man so important?

7. For what have Christians been ridiculed? What is Anselm's response to this?

8. What do Chapters 6 and 7 argue?

9. What does Anselm outline to prepare the reader for Book II?

10. How will souls be rewarded?

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