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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Monologium, Chapters LXIV - LXXIX.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. God's idea of Himself is equivalent to what?
(a) Himself.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Ourselves.
(d) Oneself.

2. There is no contradiction between any two statements about the Trinity; thus, we can understand how it is what?
(a) Odd.
(b) False.
(c) Insane.
(d) Not false.

3. Will anything exist before or after Him?
(a) Probably.
(b) Maybe.
(c) No.
(d) Yes.

4. God and His idea of Himself exist as what?
(a) No substances.
(b) One substance.
(c) Many substances.
(d) A few substances.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. On Anselm's view, when we do not ______________ the concept of God, only then can we conceive of Him not existing.

2. Chapter sixteen raises a challenge: since God is equivalent to all his properties, can't we understand God when we understand these properties? How does Anselm respond?

3. Chapter one transitions into an exhortation to believers and what prayer to God?

4. God expresses Himself through a "____________ Word."

5. What must exist to make choices between two or more things?

(see the answer key)

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