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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, Question XXV & XLIV, Chapter 9, Questions XLV, XLVI, XLVII, XLVIII, XLIX.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Damascene do when he quit his job?
(a) He became a beggar.
(b) He became a teacher.
(c) He became a pastor.
(d) He became a Christian monk.

3. Is created truth eternal, according to Aquinas?
(a) Yes, all truth is eternal, but not all that is eternal is the truth.
(b) No, not all of the truth is eternal, but all that is eternal is the truth.
(c) Yes, all truth is eternal.
(d) No, no truth is eternal, and nothing eternal is truth.

4. Angels appear _______________ in many cases.
(a) In large groups.
(b) In small groups.
(c) As individuals.
(d) As crowds.

5. 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?
(a) Truth and falsehood.
(b) Truth.
(c) Truth and lies.
(d) Falsehood.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose will does Aquinas believe should always be fulfilled?

2. Which of these men of Athens is the youngest?

3. Aquinas goes into the process needed to calculate what, regarding good and evil when there are multiple values involved in one decision?

4. He states that words do relate to actual things. It is also important to note that the mind has an important role in language. That is why Aquinas introduces the idea of naming things by and with what?

5. Dionysius was known as what?

(see the answer key)

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