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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. God has no ___________________.
(a) Beginning or end.
(b) Beginning.
(c) Feelings.
(d) End.

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

3. Can two objects both possess goodness, but to differing degrees?
(a) Maybe.
(b) Yes.
(c) Sometimes.
(d) No.

4. The expression of God is identical with _______.
(a) God.
(b) Man.
(c) Angels.
(d) Satan.

5. On Anselm's view, when we do not ______________ the concept of God, only then can we conceive of Him not existing.
(a) Hear.
(b) Believe.
(c) Read.
(d) Understand.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does this Word help to "express" or create?

2. The _______________ of dignity and existence of all things comes in degrees.

3. 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?

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

5. The Monologium is ______________ than the Proslogium.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Can God, according to Anselm, create from nothing?

3. What does Anselm say about existence and the creation of beings?

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

5. What does Anselm say in Chapter 1?

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

7. How is God a substance and also transcends substance?

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

9. What is the "Word?" How does Anselm come to explain this?

10. What does Chapter 5 argue?

(see the answer keys)

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