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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. The Monologium is ______________ than the Proslogium.
(a) Much more tedious.
(b) Much more interesting.
(c) Much shorter.
(d) Much longer.

2. Is this word like the name of created beings?
(a) Most likely.
(b) Maybe.
(c) No.
(d) Yes.

3. Should the believer, once God has rescued him, question his belief?
(a) Often.
(b) Sometimes.
(c) No.
(d) Yes.

4. We can only ascribe certain properties to God within what?
(a) The Bible.
(b) His understanding.
(c) Our understanding.
(d) Reason.

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

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. Through ________ man suffers in misery.

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

4. All things live through whom?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Chapters 3 and 4 argue?

2. To what is God identical?

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

4. What does Anselm say about the two types of conceivability?

5. How does Anselm begin the Proslogium?

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

7. Give an example showing why God must exist.

8. What does Chapter 3 of the Proslogium make?

9. How is Chapter 4 connected to Chapters 1 and 2?

10. What do Chapters 1 through 6 describe?

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