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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. Aquinas writes of the Creator's powers in relation to what?
(a) Human abilities.
(b) Potentiality and actuality.
(c) Actuality.
(d) Potentiality.

2. Aquinas then broaches the matter of what substances?
(a) Facilitator and delegator.
(b) Corruptible and incorruptible.
(c) Demonstrator and Learner.
(d) Formal authority and personal model.

3. What did Damascene do when he quit his job?
(a) He became a beggar.
(b) He became a teacher.
(c) He became a Christian monk.
(d) He became a pastor.

4. How is power twofold?
(a) Both active and inactive.
(b) Both aggressive and inactive.
(c) Both passive and active.
(d) Both passive and aggressive.

5. Aquinas observes that while "the Philosopher" claims that the human intellect can have perfect knowledge, he uses Aristotle to refute this. He cites an observation made in De Anima to prove this. What does he say is in the mind's understanding of things?
(a) Falsehood.
(b) Truth.
(c) Truth and falsehood.
(d) Truth and lies.

Short Answer Questions

1. Summa Theologica was originally written in what language?

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

3. Thanks to ______________, he becomes aware of some ancient thinkers outside of Scriptures as well as inside them.

4. "God will have all men to be _____________" (p. 204.)

5. From where do some of the objections come in regards to whether the intellectual principle is united to the body as its form?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Aquinas' response to Question LXXV On Man who is Composed of a Spiritual and a Corporeal Substance: And First, Concerning What Belongs to the Essence of the Soul?

2. What does Aquinas say about potentiality and actuality?

3. What do many of the questions and answers Aquinas discusses reveal about him?

4. When Aquinas turns to the debate format, what does he assume? What are the consequences of this?

5. What are your thoughts on the layout of the Summa Theologica?

6. What does Aquinas say about God's omnipotence?

7. What is a Thomist?

8. Who is Dionysius?

9. What is Aquinas' response about truth?

10. Who writes the introduction? What is assumed by the translation of this book?

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