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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, Saint Thomas Aquinas : Chapter 4, Questions XVI & XVII, XVIII & XIX.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Aquinas brings up the divergent views regarding what, saying that there are two lines of teaching?
(a) Formal authority and personal model.
(b) Facilitator and delegator.
(c) Corruptible and incorruptible.
(d) Demonstrator and Learner.

2. Which of these men of Athens is the youngest?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Plato.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Diogenes.

3. Damascene was later canonized as what?
(a) Both a healer and teacher.
(b) Both a priest and rabbi.
(c) Both a healer and a thinker.
(d) Both a thinker and teacher.

4. What helped with the development of the philosophy mentioned in number 6?
(a) The arrival of Christ.
(b) The arrival of the prophet Mohammed.
(c) The birth of the prophet Mohammed.
(d) The arrival of Buddha.

5. According to Aquinas, is God truth?
(a) No.
(b) Maybe.
(c) Yes.
(d) Probably.

Short Answer Questions

1. Aquinas was a learned man of what?

2. Reading the Summa is much like trying to read what?

3. Aquinas includes the role of language as part of the puzzle of what?

4. What is the reason why God has no name, or is said to be above being named?

5. Aquinas' work was severely challenged by what?

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