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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At its best, An Introduction to Saint Thomas Aquinas clarifies the mind, provides instruction and insight. It displays the vigorous efforts made by ___________ to come to terms with two of the top Grecian philosophers.
(a) The Catholic religion.
(b) Muslims.
(c) All Christians.
(d) The religious.

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

3. The divine essence is compared with what?
(a) Dark.
(b) Light.
(c) Prayer.
(d) Love.

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

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

6. 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 simple and short.
(b) A more complex and extended.
(c) A simple yet long.
(d) A more complex yet brief.

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

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

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

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

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

12. 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) No one has perfect understanding or a complete lack of understanding.
(c) Only perfect understanding or complete lack of understanding exists.
(d) Perfect understanding is not possible.

13. The matter of whether the essence of the soul is its power involves whether ____________________ soul are separate and distinct or not.
(a) The irrational and rational.
(b) The intellectual and spiritual.
(c) The concrete and abstract.
(d) The sensitive and the rational.

14. When is man's ultimate happiness, according to Aquinas?
(a) In old age.
(b) Not in this life.
(c) In this life.
(d) In childhood.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whatever action any individual does to another has already been done to whom?

2. The divine substance goes beyond the height of brilliance, and extends beyond what?

3. 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?

4. What is the Second Article of Question XC: On the Essence of Law in four articles?

5. In the Fourth Article: Whether Violence Can Be Done To the Will, what type of will does Aquinas describe?

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