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

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

3. Choice is the theme, and what is 'choice' described as?
(a) The actions of man.
(b) Thought.
(c) A combination of thought and natural appetite or body.
(d) Natural appetite.

4. 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 different things.
(b) Knowing their difference.
(c) Having two things.
(d) Having intellect.

5. What does Aquinas differentiate between in the First Article?
(a) Angels and people.
(b) Angels and God.
(c) People and animals.
(d) Angels and saints.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Aquinas, God is the end of things as something to be obtained by each thing in what way?

2. How many articles are there for Question XVIII: On the Goodness and Malice of Human Acts in General?

3. What is the Second Article of Question XC: On the Essence of Law in four articles?

4. The Second Article is more intimately connected with Church doctrine: separating irascible from _____________.

5. How many objections and replies exist in the Fourth Article: Whether Choice is of Those Things Only That are Done By Us?

Short Essay Questions

1. Can one person understand one and the same thing better than another can?

2. What does Aquinas say about whether the intellectual soul knows itself by its essence?

3. How do the two actions mentioned in number 51 contain choice?

4. Can violence be done to the will?

5. For Question 58, what is discussed in the First and Second Articles?

6. What does Aquinas claim in Chapter XLVII That in this Life We Are Unable to See God in His Essence?

7. What does Aquinas claim is the behavior of the majority of human action?

8. What is important about action?

9. What does Aquinas say about the difference between irascible and concupiscence?

10. What does the matter of whether the essence of the soul is its power involve?

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