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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 19-21, the format resumes the structure of the questions with what?
(a) Objections.
(b) Objections, answers, and rebuttals.
(c) Answers.
(d) Rebuttals.

2. God cannot be the end of things as though He were something effected, but only as ______________.
(a) Something to be altered.
(b) Something to be challenge.
(c) Something to be created.
(d) Something already existing and to be acquired.

3. The Second Article is more intimately connected with Church doctrine: separating irascible from _____________.
(a) Concupiscence.
(b) Anger.
(c) A hot temper.
(d) Provocation.

4. The goal of this book is knowledge and understanding of what?
(a) The Truth.
(b) God.
(c) Love.
(d) The soul.

5. At its best, An Introduction to Saint Thomas Aquinas clarifies the mind, provides instruction and insight. It displays the vigorous efforts made by ___________ to come to terms with two of the top Grecian philosophers.
(a) All Christians.
(b) The religious.
(c) The Catholic religion.
(d) Muslims.

6. Referring to St. Augustine, Aquinas asserts that the human soul benefits from what?
(a) Human knowledge.
(b) Prayer.
(c) Sleep.
(d) Food.

7. What does Aquinas claim is the majority of human action?
(a) Inactive behavior.
(b) Purposive behavior.
(c) Active behavior.
(d) Purposeless behavior.

8. How many articles are there for Question LXIV: On the Mean of Virtue?
(a) Six.
(b) Five.
(c) Four.
(d) Seven.

9. The divine essence is compared with what?
(a) Prayer.
(b) Love.
(c) Light.
(d) Dark.

10. What description does Aquinas provide regarding whether the intellectual soul knows itself by its essence?
(a) Of the angelic hierarchy as important and necessary.
(b) Of the angelic hierarchy as immaterial and intelligible.
(c) Of the saintly hierarchy as immaterial and intelligible.
(d) Of the saintly hierarchy as important and necessary.

11. Aquinas refers to Plato's theory of ____________.
(a) Shapes.
(b) Forms.
(c) Gravity.
(d) Abstractionism.

12. What question does Aquinas ask in Question 79?
(a) Whether the intellect and the soul are one and the same.
(b) Whether the intellectual soul is truthful.
(c) Whether everyone has an intellectual soul.
(d) Whether there is an intellectual soul.

13. The matter of whether the essence of the soul is its power involves whether ____________________ soul are separate and distinct or not.
(a) The sensitive and the rational.
(b) The intellectual and spiritual.
(c) The irrational and rational.
(d) The concrete and abstract.

14. In The End of Man: The Summa Contra Gentiles: Third Book: Chapter I That Every Agent Acts For an End, what behavior does Aquinas refer to?
(a) Active.
(b) Inactive.
(c) Purposive.
(d) Purposeless.

15. How many objections does Aquinas write in regards to whether the essence of the soul is its power?
(a) None.
(b) Seven.
(c) Six.
(d) Five.

Short Answer Questions

1. Truth is the perfection of what, claims Aquinas?

2. God is the leader and ____________ are led by Him.

3. Whatever action any individual does to another has already been done to whom?

4. One will is immediate and the rest may be the same or the guidance of ___________ which governs the events.

5. The Fifth Article about whether our intellect understands by composition and division makes it clear that composition and division of the intellect are made by ____________________.

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