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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Anselm knows what he believes, but he also wants to know what?
(a) Why it is true.
(b) Why he believes it.
(c) Whether he should believe it.
(d) What he does not believe.

5. All beings others than God exist through whom?
(a) Man.
(b) Satan.
(c) God.
(d) Other gods.

Short Answer Questions

1. There must be an ideal by which to do what?

2. God is defined as the being "than which ______________ can be conceived."

3. Chapter eight explains how God can be compassionate but also lack what?

4. Why must the answer to number 35 exist?

5. Why must God exist?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Anselm say that only a fool would not believe in God?

2. What challenge is raised in Chapter 16 of the Monologium?

3. Give an example showing why God must exist.

4. What set of problems does Chapter 9 of the Proslogium introduced? How does Chapter 10 add to this?

5. What does Chapter 5 argue?

6. What do Chapters 59 through 63 describe?

7. What does Anselm say about God's eternality and omnipresence?

8. How is God a substance? What does Anselm have to say about God as a substance?

9. How are Chapters 1 and 2 prefigure the ontological argument and also are importantly different?

10. How and why does God lack feelings of emotions? Of what else is he also incapable?

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