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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Aquinas includes the role of language as part of the puzzle of what?
(a) Mythology.
(b) God's name.
(c) Creation.
(d) Theology.

3. What power does not exist at all in God?
(a) Inactive.
(b) Passive.
(c) Active.
(d) Aggressive.

4. Truth and falsehood are both described in relation to what?
(a) Relationships between men.
(b) God.
(c) Sin.
(d) The intellect.

5. Aquinas then broaches the matter of what substances?
(a) Facilitator and delegator.
(b) Formal authority and personal model.
(c) Corruptible and incorruptible.
(d) Demonstrator and Learner.

6. 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) Falsehood.
(d) Truth and lies.

7. Aquinas' work was severely challenged by what?
(a) The powerful Israeli philosophy of the time.
(b) The powerful Catholic philosophy of the time.
(c) The powerful Arabian philosophy of the time.
(d) The powerful Greek philosophy of the time.

8. What is the reason why God has no name, or is said to be above being named?
(a) He has many names.
(b) His essence is above all that we understand about God and signify in words.
(c) He does not like being named.
(d) He is an abstract concept.

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

10. The truth or perception is that the living soul is the mind intimately associated with what?
(a) Angels.
(b) Other minds.
(c) The body.
(d) God.

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

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

13. What is entropy, according to Aquinas?
(a) The loss of information.
(b) The Creator can reduce a being to nothing.
(c) Disorder.
(d) Order.

14. Whose will does Aquinas believe should always be fulfilled?
(a) God's.
(b) His own.
(c) The Pope's.
(d) One's own.

15. Aquinas writes of the Creator's powers in relation to what?
(a) Actuality.
(b) Potentiality.
(c) Human abilities.
(d) Potentiality and actuality.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whenever you act in accordance with your own truth and values, then your behavior is what?

2. Who had a Christian best friend for many years?

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

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

5. According to Aquinas, Aristotle says that the soul is only separable from the body inasmuch as what?

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