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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. What does this Word help to "express" or create?
(a) Some things.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Many thing.s
(d) The world.

2. We cannot even do what without His help?
(a) Be influenced.
(b) Make choices.
(c) Seek God.
(d) Sin.

3. Everything God created existed in one sense already. How?
(a) God experimented prior to creating various beings.
(b) They were ideas in the mind of God.
(c) There were pieces of the creations lying around.
(d) On another planet.

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

5. Chapter one transitions into an exhortation to believers and what prayer to God?
(a) That others will believe him.
(b) That his work will reveal the truth.
(c) That many will convert.
(d) That he will continue to have faith once he understands.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Is God properly listed among common substances?

3. Does God have beginning and/or end?

4. God's conception of Himself and His relation to the world is The Word that has always existed where?

5. God and His Word bear the same relationship to all creation. Do they sustain these relations separately?

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