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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 19, Human Acts: Questions 6, 8 & 9 Chapter 20, Questions 12, 13 & 18Chapter 21, Questions XX, XLIX, LI, LIV, LV, LVI, LVII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Summa Theologica was originally written in what language?
(a) German.
(b) Italian.
(c) Greek.
(d) Latin.

2. Due to the answer to number 139, Aquinas claims that happiness ______________.
(a) May not be attainable during life.
(b) Is easily lost after childhood.
(c) Can be attained at the end of one's life.
(d) Is attainable during life.

3. Objections and refutations to those objections are presented for what reasons?
(a) So that readers can follow the line of thinking.
(b) So that readers can choose their own beliefs.
(c) To give options of possible beliefs.
(d) To confuse readers.

4. "God will have all men to be _____________" (p. 204.)
(a) Powerful.
(b) Punished.
(c) Fearful.
(d) Saved.

5. The divine essence is compared with what?
(a) Dark.
(b) Love.
(c) Prayer.
(d) Light.

Short Answer Questions

1. Aquinas further asserts that God's action and essence are in what?

2. Aquinas shows that his ideas can be _____.

3. Is there Will in God?

4. 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?

5. Aquinas sees individuating qualities as signs of _____________________ rather than as the type of separation associated with biological and social organizations.

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