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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 soul.
(b) The Truth.
(c) God.
(d) Love.

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

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

4. 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.

5. 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) Human troubles.
(c) Judgmental attitudes.
(d) That which holds them back from being more divine and perfect in their being.

6. What is the First Article of Question LXI: The Cardinal Virtues in five articles?
(a) Whether the Moral Virtues Should be Called Cardinal or Principal Virtues.
(b) Whether the Moral Virtues Should be Called Principal or Secondary Virtues.
(c) Whether the Moral Virtues Should be Called Cardinal or Initial Virtues.
(d) Whether the Moral Virtues Should be Called Virtues.

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

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

9. What does Aquinas differentiate between in the First Article?
(a) Angels and saints.
(b) People and animals.
(c) Angels and people.
(d) Angels and God.

10. 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.

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

12. 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) Five.
(b) Four.
(c) Three.
(d) Two.

13. In Question 84: How the Soul While United to the Body Understands Corporeal Things Beneath It in Eight Articles, Aquinas gets into _____________ historiography of the quest for knowledge and certainty regarding the truth.
(a) A more complex and extended.
(b) A more complex yet brief.
(c) A simple and short.
(d) A simple yet long.

14. What description does Aquinas provide regarding whether the intellectual soul knows itself by its essence?
(a) Of the angelic hierarchy as important and necessary.
(b) Of the angelic hierarchy as immaterial and intelligible.
(c) Of the saintly hierarchy as immaterial and intelligible.
(d) Of the saintly hierarchy as important and necessary.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many articles are there for Question LXII: The Theological Virtues?

3. Second Article: Whether the Mean of Moral Virtue is a Real Mean or a Mean of Reason completes what?

4. The matter of whether the essence of the soul is its power involves whether ____________________ soul are separate and distinct or not.

5. Aquinas goes back to pre-Socratic times and the observation that the system is rooted in motion, which ___________ certainty.

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