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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Anselm's Apologetic, Chapters I - X.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. We can understand aspects of Him, but we cannot do what?
(a) Understand Him in his totality.
(b) Listen to Him.
(c) Love aspects of Him.
(d) Make connections between those aspects.

3. In chapter seven, Anselm argues that all beings other than God derive their nature from whom?
(a) Man.
(b) God.
(c) Other gods.
(d) Satan.

4. On Anselm's view, what we can conceive and cannot conceive is a guide to what?
(a) What can and cannot exist.
(b) What can exist.
(c) To what extent something exists.
(d) Why something exists.

5. Is Boso a Christian?
(a) Most likely not.
(b) Yes.
(c) Possibly.
(d) No.

Short Answer Questions

1. From where does God's compulsion come to complete his original plan?

2. Why is this island greater than an island with all of the Island's properties save the answer to number 158?

3. Chapters four and five argue that God must complete His original plan to do what?

4. All beings others than God exist through whom?

5. Does Gaunilo believe Anselm's Ontological Argument to be correct?

(see the answer key)

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