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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Monologium, Chapters LXIV - LXXIX.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The soul's efforts must be directed towards what?
(a) Fear.
(b) The good.
(c) Faith.
(d) Repentance.

2. Chapters one and two _____________ the ontological argument.
(a) Confuse.
(b) Consider.
(c) Explain.
(d) Prefigure.

3. How does God exist?
(a) Surprisingly.
(b) Simply.
(c) Complexly.
(d) Surely.

4. Chapter five argues that this being must exist through what?
(a) Itself.
(b) Others.
(c) Gods and men.
(d) Human beings.

5. Chapter eight explains how God can be compassionate but also lack what?
(a) Justice.
(b) Understanding.
(c) The feeling of compassion.
(d) Love.

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

3. Will anything exist before or after Him?

4. Anselm argues that the Word "derives" existence from God through His birth, but not His __________.

5. God the Father and the Son both possess properties together. Does God also possess separate properties?

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