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

2. We can only ascribe certain properties to God within what?
(a) Reason.
(b) Our understanding.
(c) His understanding.
(d) The Bible.

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

4. Anselm argues that the argument in number 47 is what?
(a) Insane.
(b) Conceivable.
(c) Inconceivable.
(d) Wrong.

5. Chapter thirty argues that the expression of God consists of only one what?
(a) Phrase.
(b) Thought.
(c) Sound.
(d) Word.

Short Answer Questions

1. Everything God created existed in one sense already. How?

2. Can created substances be accurately compared to Him?

3. Chapter thirty-six explains that God creates and knows His creation in what kind of manner?

4. Chapters twenty-five through twenty-nine discuss the fact that God is an unchanging ____________.

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

(see the answer key)

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