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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Aquinas, Aristotle says that the soul is only separable from the body inasmuch as what?
(a) Thoughts and practices are.
(b) One believes it to be.
(c) God wants it to be.
(d) The separation of mind and body at death.

2. What location of truth does the author question?
(a) Whether truth resides only in the intellect.
(b) Whether there is truth in heaven.
(c) Whether truth resides in God.
(d) Whether man can be truthful.

3. The sixth article takes up the matter of the puzzle of whether the human soul is ________________.
(a) A part of the mind or body.
(b) Real or abstract.
(c) Real or imagined.
(d) Corruptible or incorruptible.

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

5. The Summa Theologica is a tome of what?
(a) Catholic philosophical theology.
(b) Thomas Aquinas' philosophical theology.
(c) Augustine's philosophical theology.
(d) Aristotle's philosophical theology.

6. Whenever you act in accordance with your own truth and values, then your behavior is what?
(a) Not in accordance with God's will.
(b) In unity with your essence.
(c) Unusual.
(d) Beneficial only to oneself.

7. The mind is a phenomenon of the human being that can be ___________ separated and retain function.
(a) Entirely.
(b) Slightly.
(c) Mostly.
(d) Partially.

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

9. From where do some of the objections come in regards to whether the intellectual principle is united to the body as its form?
(a) DesCartes type of dualism.
(b) Aristotle's rhetoric.
(c) The Socratic Method.
(d) Plato's studies.

10. He attempted to reconcile philosophy with what?
(a) His culture.
(b) Greek mythology.
(c) Theology.
(d) Psychology.

11. In Question II, The Existence of God, how many articles does Aquinas cover the self-evidence of God, addresses difficulties posed by conditions that cannot be demonstrated, and demonstrable proof of God's existence?
(a) Four.
(b) Two.
(c) Three.
(d) Eight.

12. What is a Thomist?
(a) Someone who is especially well-versed in the work of Saint Thomas Aquinas.
(b) Someone who is named after Saint Thomas Aquinas.
(c) Someone who is a disciple of Saint Thomas Aquinas.
(d) Someone who teaches Saint Thomas Aquinas' philosophies.

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

14. Is there Will in God?
(a) Yes, often there is will in God.
(b) No, there is no will in God.
(c) Yes, God's good is His own will.
(d) Yes, there can be will in God.

15. Reading the Summa is much like trying to read what?
(a) A novel.
(b) The Bible.
(c) A book in another language.
(d) A well-planned physics book written for other physicists.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. The layout of the Summa Theologica is designed for use in what?

3. Who translated the book?

4. How many major thinkers other than Aquinas are most frequently named by the author?

5. Thanks to ______________, he becomes aware of some ancient thinkers outside of Scriptures as well as inside them.

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