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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13, Question LXXIX / 79 & Analysis Chapter 14, Questions LXXX, LXXXI, & LXXXII & LXXXIII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a psychological purification process?
(a) Studying philosophy.
(b) Combining theology with philosophy.
(c) Speaking with philosophers.
(d) Debate and logical argumentation.

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

3. Aquinas did not have the advantage of what?
(a) Scripture.
(b) Contemporary neuroscience.
(c) An education.
(d) Thinkers.

4. Does truth exist in the intellect?
(a) Most likely.
(b) Yes.
(c) Probably.
(d) No.

5. Aquinas supports God as self-evident but again shows his existence through _________________.
(a) Demonstration.
(b) Analogies.
(c) Grace.
(d) Faith.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is epistemology?

2. Who does Aquinas mention in the Third Article, when he asks if there is an Agent Intellect?

3. The Second Article concerns whether the intellect is a purely _________ power or not.

4. Aquinas shows that his ideas can be _____.

5. Aquinas claims that _________________ observes, categorizes, and determines what would be harmful and what would be helpful to an entity, person, or organism.

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