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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Question XII: On Intention. Whether intention is an Act of the Intellect or of the Will, how many objections are made to the first article?
(a) Four.
(b) Three.
(c) Five.
(d) Two.

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

3. How many articles are there for Question XCIV: The Natural Law?
(a) Eight.
(b) Seven.
(c) Nine.
(d) Six.

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

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

6. In the Fourth Article: Whether Violence Can Be Done To the Will, what type of will does Aquinas describe?
(a) A unique will.
(b) An unknown will.
(c) A two-fold will.
(d) A strange will.

7. Action is used as what?
(a) A purposeful way to behave.
(b) An act by man.
(c) A defining factor.
(d) A way to move.

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

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

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

11. 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) Eight objections and ther replies.
(b) Four objections and their replies.
(c) Six objections and their replies.
(d) Two objections and their replies.

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

13. Choice is the theme, and what is 'choice' described as?
(a) Thought.
(b) The actions of man.
(c) Natural appetite.
(d) A combination of thought and natural appetite or body.

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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?

3. How many articles are there for Question XCI: On The Various Kinds of Law?

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

5. The statement in number 137 is _______________ his other point that action is what manifests essence.

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