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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. Why can we as humans not win back our salvation?
(a) We do not deserve salvation.
(b) We do not want our salvation.
(c) We are so corrupt.
(d) We are too weak.

2. Why is the answer to number 33 this type of goodness?
(a) Only some things can be good.
(b) If it were not, it would not be an ideal.
(c) Only one type of goodness exists.
(d) If it were not, it would be ideal.

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

4. Chapter one transitions into an exhortation to believers and what prayer to God?
(a) That others will believe him.
(b) That his work will reveal the truth.
(c) That he will continue to have faith once he understands.
(d) That many will convert.

5. Could God have been brought into existence by anything else?
(a) Maybe.
(b) No.
(c) Yes.
(d) Most likely.

Short Answer Questions

1. God is defined as the being "than which ______________ can be conceived."

2. The first man, Adam, discarded a state of unity with God which was __________ to keep.

3. Chapters one and two _____________ the ontological argument.

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

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

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