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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, Conclusion of Question XIX & Question XXII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What location of truth does the author question?
(a) Whether there is truth in heaven.
(b) Whether truth resides in God.
(c) Whether truth resides only in the intellect.
(d) Whether man can be truthful.

2. Aquinas shows that his ideas can be _____.
(a) Unreasonable.
(b) Wrong.
(c) Formed.
(d) Odd.

3. What is a Thomist?
(a) Someone who is especially well-versed in the work of Saint Thomas Aquinas.
(b) Someone who teaches Saint Thomas Aquinas' philosophies.
(c) Someone who is named after Saint Thomas Aquinas.
(d) Someone who is a disciple of Saint Thomas Aquinas.

4. When Aquinas turns to the debate format, what is he assuming about the reader?
(a) The reader is well-versed in debate.
(b) The reader wants this debate format.
(c) The reader is aware of the main intellectual controversies of this era.
(d) The reader is in agreement with him on debate issues.

5. Thanks to ______________, he becomes aware of some ancient thinkers outside of Scriptures as well as inside them.
(a) Aquinas' friends.
(b) Aquinas' education.
(c) Aquinas' family.
(d) Aquinas' intelligence.

Short Answer Questions

1. Aquinas' work was severely challenged by what?

2. According to Aquinas, is God truth?

3. When was Summa Theologica written?

4. What does Aquinas mean by truth that is immutable?

5. Aquinas explains that God is defined as the "first cause" or what?

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