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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. While still part of The Summa Theologica, chapters 19-21 are an entirely ___________ part.
(a) Strange.
(b) Unusual.
(c) Useless.
(d) Different.

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

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

11. When there is an organizer or leader of a group, Aquinas explains that only the leader is considered to be what?
(a) The agent.
(b) The reagent.
(c) The reactor.
(d) The actor.

12. 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.

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

14. The divine essence is exposed through what?
(a) An immediate vision of God.
(b) An image of God.
(c) A subtle vision of God.
(d) The works of others.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the First Article of Question LXI: The Cardinal Virtues in five articles?

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

3. How many articles are there for Question XCIV: The Natural Law?

4. He writes that men [and women] judge others on the basis of what?

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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