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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Truth is the perfection of what, claims Aquinas?
(a) The intellect.
(b) The soul.
(c) God.
(d) Love.

2. The Fourth Article is Whether We Can Understand Many Things at the Same Time. What does Aquinas say that the ability to distinguish two things involves?
(a) Knowing their difference.
(b) Having intellect.
(c) Having two things.
(d) Having two different things.

3. Aquinas sees individuating qualities as signs of _____________________ rather than as the type of separation associated with biological and social organizations.
(a) Unnatural separateness.
(b) Fundamental togetherness.
(c) Unnatural togetherness.
(d) Fundamental separateness.

4. How many objections and replies exist in Third Article: Whether Choice is Only of the Means to the End or Sometimes also of the End?
(a) Four objections and their replies.
(b) Eight objections and ther replies.
(c) Six objections and their replies.
(d) Two objections and their replies.

5. What is the Second Article of Question XC: On the Essence of Law in four articles?
(a) Whether All Laws are Good.
(b) Whether Law Actually Exists.
(c) Whether Law is Always Given by God.
(d) Whether Law is Always Directed to the Common Good.

6. In Chapter XVII: That All Things are Directed to One End, Which is God, Aquinas teaches by what?
(a) Example.
(b) Scientific study.
(c) Comparison.
(d) Analogy.

7. How many objections and refutations are there for the Second Article: Whether Moral Virtue Differs From Intellectual Virtue?
(a) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) Five.
(d) Four.

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

9. God has imbued all creatures, most especially humanity, to partake of the nature of God and to shed off what?
(a) Worries and pain.
(b) Judgmental attitudes.
(c) Human troubles.
(d) That which holds them back from being more divine and perfect in their being.

10. One will is immediate and the rest may be the same or the guidance of ___________ which governs the events.
(a) A lower will.
(b) Some higher will.
(c) Several higher wills.
(d) A special will.

11. Second Article: Whether the Mean of Moral Virtue is a Real Mean or a Mean of Reason completes what?
(a) This type of discussion on virtue.
(b) This type of discussion on intellect.
(c) This type of discussion on morality.
(d) This type of discussion on love.

12. What is the Summa Theologica part of?
(a) A long tradition.
(b) The Koran.
(c) A new tradition.
(d) The Bible.

13. The essence of an angel is knowledge and what else?
(a) The intellect.
(b) The soul.
(c) The knower of knowledge.
(d) The body.

14. What do some think regarding whether one person can understand one and the same thing better than another can?
(a) No one has perfect understanding or a complete lack of understanding.
(b) Perfect understanding is not possible.
(c) Only perfect understanding or complete lack of understanding exists.
(d) No one can know more than another.

15. God manifests as _____________ within humanity.
(a) Light.
(b) Jesus.
(c) Fear.
(d) Goodness.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Second Article is focused upon differentiating the sensitive and the intellectual appetites: are they different powers?

2. The intellect gives virtue and power to the soul, but is the intellect the soul in and of itself?

3. 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?

4. Referring to St. Augustine, Aquinas asserts that the human soul benefits from what?

5. In the Fourth Article: Whether Violence Can Be Done To the Will, what type of will does Aquinas describe?

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