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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The _______________ of dignity and existence of all things comes in degrees.
(a) Inequality.
(b) Sense.
(c) Need.
(d) Equality.

3. Chapters one and two _____________ the ontological argument.
(a) Confuse.
(b) Consider.
(c) Explain.
(d) Prefigure.

4. On Anselm's view, when we do not ______________ the concept of God, only then can we conceive of Him not existing.
(a) Believe.
(b) Hear.
(c) Read.
(d) Understand.

5. In chapter seven, Anselm argues that God is not only omnipotent but incapable of certain things. What can He not do?
(a) He cannot do evil and He cannot fail to have maximal power.
(b) He cannot be tricked by evil and He cannot have complete power.
(c) He cannot force us to believe and He cannot bend our wills.
(d) He cannot care about others and He cannot hear our pleas.

Short Answer Questions

1. When we compare two objects, we must implicitly rely on what?

2. What is the only method of creating the world?

3. Why must God exist?

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

5. Why must the answer to number 35 exist?

(see the answer key)

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