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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To be God is to be what?
(a) The thing that has no equal and no superior.
(b) Cool.
(c) The only god.
(d) The leader of the gods.

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

3. Chapters twenty-five through twenty-nine discuss the fact that God is an unchanging ____________.
(a) Son.
(b) Substance.
(c) Father.
(d) Friend.

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

5. In chapter seven, Anselm argues that all beings other than God derive their nature from whom?
(a) Satan.
(b) Other gods.
(c) Man.
(d) God.

Short Answer Questions

1. God's idea of Himself is equivalent to what?

2. The existence of everything else is caused to be by what?

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

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

5. In chapter seven, Anselm argues that God is not only omnipotent but incapable of certain things. What can He not do?

(see the answer key)

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