2. What test does Aquinas' idea stand?
(a) The test of conflict and disagreement.
(b) The test of accuracy.
(c) The test of the Catholic Church.
(d) The test of philosophers.

3. Where did Damascene live for many years?
(a) Iraq.
(b) Iran.
(c) Palestine.
(d) India.

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

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

6. How does Aquinas define providence?
(a) The desires of man.
(b) A city in Rhode Island.
(c) The ability of man to govern the universe.
(d) The exemplar of things ordered towards an end.

7. The layout of the Summa Theologica is designed for use in what?
(a) Intellectual debate amongst theologians and philosophers.
(b) A comparative religion course.
(c) A church.
(d) A classroom setting.

8. Thanks to ______________, he becomes aware of some ancient thinkers outside of Scriptures as well as inside them.
(a) Aquinas' education.
(b) Aquinas' friends.
(c) Aquinas' family.
(d) Aquinas' intelligence.

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

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

11. Who has written the Introduction?
(a) Socrates.
(b) St. Thomas Aquinas.
(c) Plato.
(d) A nameless scholar.

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

13. While the activity of the mind is usually expressed through the living body, with what will it continue in its current form?
(a) The cessation of the material nature.
(b) The coming of Christ.
(c) The birth of new beings.
(d) Accidents and injuries to the brain.

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

15. Aquinas shows that his ideas can be _____.
(a) Wrong.
(b) Odd.
(c) Formed.
(d) Unreasonable.

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. What was Damascene?

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

4. From where do some of the objections come in regards to whether the intellectual principle is united to the body as its form?

5. When Aquinas turns to the debate format, what is he assuming about the reader?

(see the answer keys)

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