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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. God cannot be the end of things as though He were something effected, but only as ______________.
(a) Something to be challenge.
(b) Something to be created.
(c) Something already existing and to be acquired.
(d) Something to be altered.

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

3. What do both contemplation and action contain?
(a) Hope.
(b) Prayer.
(c) Choice.
(d) Peace.

4. God manifests as _____________ within humanity.
(a) Goodness.
(b) Light.
(c) Jesus.
(d) Fear.

5. Is the second article of Question XIII included in the text of this Introduction?
(a) Yes.
(b) Somewhat.
(c) Not at first.
(d) No.

Short Answer Questions

1. The distinction between two things is a subdivision of ___________ of a whole.

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

3. In the Fourth Article: Whether Violence Can Be Done To the Will, what type of will does Aquinas describe?

4. The divine essence is compared with what?

5. What is the First Article of Question 58, On the Difference Between Moral and Intellectual Virtues?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Aquinas say in the Second Article, regarding whether the intellect is a purely passive power or not?

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

4. What does Aquinas say about choice and how it is an act of the will in relation to the means to an end?

5. What does Aquinas say about differentiating the sensitive and and the intellectual appetites?

6. What does Aquinas say about agents and action?

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

8. What does Aquinas say about whether we can understand many things at the same time?

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

10. What are the four articles in response to Question LXII?

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