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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Second Article of Question XC: On the Essence of Law in four articles?
(a) Whether Law is Always Given by God.
(b) Whether All Laws are Good.
(c) Whether Law is Always Directed to the Common Good.
(d) Whether Law Actually Exists.

2. In the Fourth Article: Whether Violence Can Be Done To the Will, what type of will does Aquinas describe?
(a) A unique will.
(b) A two-fold will.
(c) An unknown will.
(d) A strange will.

3. How many articles are there in Question XIII: On Choice, Which is an Act of the Will in Relation to the Means to an End?
(a) Six.
(b) Five.
(c) Four.
(d) Three.

4. How many objections does Aquinas write in regards to whether the essence of the soul is its power?
(a) Six.
(b) Seven.
(c) Five.
(d) None.

5. What is the Summa Theologica part of?
(a) A long tradition.
(b) The Koran.
(c) The Bible.
(d) A new tradition.

6. ____________ ourselves and others is the healing force.
(a) Faith in.
(b) Hope for.
(c) Prayer for.
(d) Forgiveness of.

7. In Chapter XVI: That the End of Everything is a Good, the end is viewed as what?
(a) Perfection.
(b) The action.
(c) The immotive.
(d) The motive.

8. When is man's ultimate happiness, according to Aquinas?
(a) In childhood.
(b) Not in this life.
(c) In old age.
(d) In this life.

9. Aquinas goes back to pre-Socratic times and the observation that the system is rooted in motion, which ___________ certainty.
(a) Supports.
(b) Is similar to.
(c) Benefits.
(d) Undermines.

10. The Fourth Article is Whether We Can Understand Many Things at the Same Time. What does Aquinas say that the ability to distinguish two things involves?
(a) Having two things.
(b) Having two different things.
(c) Knowing their difference.
(d) Having intellect.

11. Whether the intellectual principle is multiplied according to the number of bodies has to do with what?
(a) Perceptions of others.
(b) Perceptions of separation.
(c) Perceptions of connection.
(d) Perceptions of separation and connection.

12. Aquinas also believes that humans do perceive the same principles when they use_______________ thought.
(a) Abstract and conceptual.
(b) Real and imagined.
(c) True and false.
(d) Abstract and concrete.

13. Aquinas explains that the human mind can discover a new __________.
(a) Theory.
(b) Planet.
(c) Thought.
(d) Realm.

14. In The End of Man: The Summa Contra Gentiles: Third Book: Chapter I That Every Agent Acts For an End, what behavior does Aquinas refer to?
(a) Active.
(b) Purposeless.
(c) Purposive.
(d) Inactive.

15. Aquinas believes that it is virtually self-evident that there is _____________ for there to be greater or lesser understanding between individuals.
(a) More than one way.
(b) No way.
(c) Only one way.
(d) Two ways.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 19-21, the format resumes the structure of the questions with what?

2. At its best, An Introduction to Saint Thomas Aquinas clarifies the mind, provides instruction and insight. It displays the vigorous efforts made by ___________ to come to terms with two of the top Grecian philosophers.

3. Action is used as what?

4. People should assume that there is more to the region than what?

5. Due to the answer to number 139, Aquinas claims that happiness ______________.

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