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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whatever action any individual does to another has already been done to whom?
(a) Saints.
(b) Angels.
(c) Jesus.
(d) The disciples.

2. The distinction between two things is a subdivision of ___________ of a whole.
(a) Understanding.
(b) These things.
(c) What is to be understood.
(d) Knowledge.

3. The Second Article concerns whether the intellect is a purely _________ power or not.
(a) Aggresive.
(b) Deadly.
(c) Strong.
(d) Passive.

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

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

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

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

8. He writes that men [and women] judge others on the basis of what?
(a) Their intended objectives.
(b) God's laws.
(c) Their current knowledge.
(d) Others encourage them to believe.

9. How many articles exist to discuss the powers of the soul in particular?
(a) Ten.
(b) Four.
(c) Eight.
(d) Two.

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

11. The desire for intellectual stimulation and a physical drive such as hunger represent ________________ these two types of appetites.
(a) A group of.
(b) The connection between.
(c) The similarities between.
(d) The division between.

12. Aquinas also believes that humans do perceive the same principles when they use_______________ thought.
(a) True and false.
(b) Real and imagined.
(c) Abstract and concrete.
(d) Abstract and conceptual.

13. In Chapter XVI: That the End of Everything is a Good, the end is viewed as what?
(a) The action.
(b) The motive.
(c) The immotive.
(d) Perfection.

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

15. How many articles are there in Question XIII: On Choice, Which is an Act of the Will in Relation to the Means to an End?
(a) Three.
(b) Four.
(c) Six.
(d) Five.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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 ____________________.

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

3. In Chapter XVII: That All Things are Directed to One End, Which is God, Aquinas teaches by what?

4. How many articles are there for Question XVIII: On the Goodness and Malice of Human Acts in General?

5. Aquinas sees individuating qualities as signs of _____________________ rather than as the type of separation associated with biological and social organizations.

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