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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through In Behalf of the Fool.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Can two objects both possess goodness, but to differing degrees?
(a) Yes.
(b) Maybe.
(c) No.
(d) Sometimes.

2. The second book shows how Jesus could do what?
(a) Walk on water.
(b) Make satisfaction for the sins of humanity.
(c) Fish.
(d) Raise the dead.

3. Why must God exist?
(a) To say He does not exist is blasphemous.
(b) The world would fall apart without Him.
(c) We would not exist without Him.
(d) He is the standard by which all other things are judged.

4. How does Gaunilo draw an analogy to God's existence?
(a) With the least conceivable island.
(b) Jesus as an island.
(c) Man, the fool.
(d) With the greatest conceivable island.

5. There must be an ideal by which to do what?
(a) Create.
(b) Consider.
(c) Compare all things.
(d) Understand all things.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapters one and two argue that a being which is "best, and greatest and highest of all existing beings" _________ exist.

2. Why is the answer to number 33 this type of goodness?

3. Does Gaunilo believe Anselm's Ontological Argument to be correct?

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

5. About what is Boso worried?

(see the answer key)

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