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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 lower will.
(c) Some higher will.
(d) A special will.

3. The Second Article concerns whether the intellect is a purely _________ power or not.
(a) Aggresive.
(b) Passive.
(c) Strong.
(d) Deadly.

4. God cannot be the end of things as though He were something effected, but only as ______________.
(a) Something already existing and to be acquired.
(b) Something to be created.
(c) Something to be altered.
(d) Something to be challenge.

5. How many articles are there for Question XCIII: The Eternal Law?
(a) Six.
(b) Three.
(c) Four.
(d) Five.

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

7. Appetites are ______.
(a) Immovable.
(b) Movable.
(c) Changing.
(d) Strong.

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

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

10. 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) Having two different things.
(b) Knowing their difference.
(c) Having two things.
(d) Having intellect.

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

12. How many objections does Aquinas write in regards to whether the essence of the soul is its power?
(a) Five.
(b) None.
(c) Seven.
(d) Six.

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

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

15. How many objections and replies exist in the Fourth Article: Whether Choice is of Those Things Only That are Done By Us?
(a) Three.
(b) Four.
(c) Two.
(d) Eight.

Short Answer Questions

1. The divine essence is exposed through what?

2. Angels consist of ____________ only.

3. Truth is the perfection of what, claims Aquinas?

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

5. How many articles are there in Question XIII: On Choice, Which is an Act of the Will in Relation to the Means to an End?

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