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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 exist a being that is what?
(a) Created.
(b) The source of all existence.
(c) Good.
(d) Kind.

2. 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?
(a) He will test this to see if it is true.
(b) He believes this to be true.
(c) He denies this to be true.
(d) He is not sure if this is true.

3. When we compare two objects, we must implicitly rely on what?
(a) The object which is better to stand out.
(b) Our common sense to distinguish which is better.
(c) Some standard or ideal to distinguish which is better.
(d) Someone to tell us which is better.

4. Chapters one and two argue that a being which is "best, and greatest and highest of all existing beings" _________ exist.
(a) Must.
(b) Could.
(c) Do not.
(d) Might.

5. Some being had to __________ being.
(a) Hope for.
(b) Originate.
(c) Evolve into.
(d) Change into another.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Can created substances be accurately compared to Him?

4. Chapter thirty argues that the expression of God consists of only one what?

5. God must create from what?

(see the answer key)

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