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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a being with all of God's properties missing?

2. When the soul loves God, He is blessed and God does what?

3. Can multiple persons incarnate as one person?

4. When men are resurrected, will they have the same bodies they had in this world?

5. Is Anselm's task of defending the Christian faith complete?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Gaunilo submit?

3. What is known about each human soul?

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

5. What do Chapters 1, 2, and 3 explain?

6. What does the Appendix of Anselm: Basic Writings contain?

7. How does Gaunilo use the greatest conceivable island?

8. Why must humans be saved?

9. What do Chapters 3 through 8 discuss?

10. What is Gaunilo's argument?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Christ was not compelled to offer himself to die.

Part 1) How does Anselm attempt to prove this statement? Is he successful? Why or why not? How is this important in setting up Book 2 of the Cur Deus Homo?

Part 2) What else does Anselm say to set up Book 2? Why does he say this? How does it prepare the reader for Book 2?

Part 3) What have you learned about the Christian faith through Cur Deus Homo? Do you agree with what Anselm has to say? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

St. Anselm prays to God that his work will reveal the truth.

Part 1) Why does he make this prayer? What does this reveal about him?

Part 2) In your opinion, s St. Anselm's prayer answered? Why or why not? Can prayer make one's actions and thoughts absolutely correct? Why or why not?

Part 3) What truth, if any, do Anselm's writings provide?

Essay Topic 3

Anselm disputes Gaunilo's island example.

Part 1) What is Gaunilo's island example? Why does Anselm dispute it?

Part 2) Do you agree with Anselm or Gaunilo regarding the "lost island?" Why?

Part 3) What is the connection between Anselm's beliefs about Gaunilo's "lost island" and one's ability to conceive?

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