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

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

3. The existence of everything else is caused to be by what?
(a) Evolution.
(b) An accident.
(c) Something else.
(d) An explosion.

4. God must create from what?
(a) Few things.
(b) Some things.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Everything.

5. Anselm begins the Proslogium in the preface by stating his dissatisfaction with _______________ and his rationale for writing the Proslogium.
(a) The Proslogium.
(b) The Duologium.
(c) The Monologium.
(d) The Triologium.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. 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?

4. Why does Anselm respond the way he does in the answer to number 56?

5. We cannot even do what without His help?

(see the answer key)

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