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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Aquinas discusses agents and ____________.
(a) Reaction.
(b) Reagents.
(c) Actions.
(d) Agents.

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

3. Aquinas claims that focus upon the spiritual means what?
(a) A decrease in sensitivity to life on earth.
(b) A struggle.
(c) The interest has been removed from the sensory.
(d) A peaceful life.

4. When is man's ultimate happiness, according to Aquinas?
(a) Not in this life.
(b) In old age.
(c) In this life.
(d) In childhood.

5. God is the leader and ____________ are led by Him.
(a) Saints.
(b) Angels.
(c) Men.
(d) Disciples.

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

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

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

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

10. The next set of questions are focused on what issue?
(a) Prayer.
(b) Love.
(c) Law.
(d) Peace.

11. Who does Aquinas mention in the Third Article, when he asks if there is an Agent Intellect?
(a) Augustine, Dionysius, and Aristotle.
(b) Aristotle, Plato, and Socrates.
(c) Augustine, Aristotle, and Plato.
(d) Socrates, Dionysius, and Augustine.

12. People should assume that there is more to the region than what?
(a) God has told them.
(b) Is in the Bible.
(c) Most people know.
(d) Has been discovered.

13. How many articles are there for Question XCI: On The Various Kinds of Law?
(a) Six.
(b) Three.
(c) Four.
(d) Five.

14. How many objections and replies exist in the Fourth Article: Whether Choice is of Those Things Only That are Done By Us?
(a) Eight.
(b) Two.
(c) Four.
(d) Three.

15. Due to the answer to number 139, Aquinas claims that happiness ______________.
(a) Is easily lost after childhood.
(b) May not be attainable during life.
(c) Can be attained at the end of one's life.
(d) Is attainable during life.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many articles exist to discuss the powers of the soul in particular?

2. Is the second article of Question XIII included in the text of this Introduction?

3. In Chapter 19-21, the format resumes the structure of the questions with what?

4. Aquinas also believes that humans do perceive the same principles when they use_______________ thought.

5. Aquinas explains that the human mind can discover a new __________.

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