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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the First Article of Question 58, On the Difference Between Moral and Intellectual Virtues?
(a) Whether Every Virtue is a Moral Virtue.
(b) Whether Virtue Exists in Morality.
(c) Whether Every Moral is a Virtue.
(d) Whether Morality Exists in Virtue.

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

3. The divine substance goes beyond the height of brilliance, and extends beyond what?
(a) The abilities of the soul.
(b) The knowledge of saints.
(c) All knowledge.
(d) Some knowledge.

4. How many articles are there for Question LXIV: On the Mean of Virtue?
(a) Six.
(b) Seven.
(c) Five.
(d) Four.

5. What do some think regarding whether one person can understand one and the same thing better than another can?
(a) No one can know more than another.
(b) Perfect understanding is not possible.
(c) No one has perfect understanding or a complete lack of understanding.
(d) Only perfect understanding or complete lack of understanding exists.

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. 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?
(a) Knowing their difference.
(b) Having two things.
(c) Having intellect.
(d) Having two different things.

13. An intellect knows multiple things by their difference and can compare them ______________.
(a) From others' experiences.
(b) From afar.
(c) From direct experience.
(d) Carefully.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Summa Theologica part of?

2. Who does Aquinas mention in the Third Article, when he asks if there is an Agent Intellect?

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

4. Whether the intellectual principle is multiplied according to the number of bodies has to do with what?

5. What description does Aquinas provide regarding whether the intellectual soul knows itself by its essence?

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