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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Anselm believes that his project of proving God's existence is a case of "________ seeking understanding."
(a) The unsure.
(b) Despair.
(c) Disbelief.
(d) Faith.

3. God is identical with what?
(a) His own life.
(b) Man.
(c) Love.
(d) Justice.

4. Why must the answer to number 35 exist?
(a) Otherwise we could not truly say of anything that it is better than another thing.
(b) Otherwise all things would be good.
(c) Otherwise we could not understand goodness.
(d) Otherwise God would not hear our call for help.

5. The Monologium is ______________ than the Proslogium.
(a) Much shorter.
(b) Much more interesting.
(c) Much longer.
(d) Much more tedious.

Short Answer Questions

1. We can understand aspects of Him, but we cannot do what?

2. Chapter five argues that this being must exist through what?

3. Chapter eight explains how God can be compassionate but also lack what?

4. Anselm argues that the argument in number 47 is what?

5. Can two objects both possess goodness, but to differing degrees?

(see the answer key)

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