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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The sixth article takes up the matter of the puzzle of whether the human soul is ________________.
(a) Real or abstract.
(b) Real or imagined.
(c) A part of the mind or body.
(d) Corruptible or incorruptible.

2. Who has written the Introduction?
(a) A nameless scholar.
(b) Plato.
(c) Socrates.
(d) St. Thomas Aquinas.

3. The objections in this book are legitimate opposition to what?
(a) Aquinas' ideas.
(b) Most theologians' ideas.
(c) Most philosophers' beliefs.
(d) The Bible.

4. Aquinas observes that while "the Philosopher" claims that the human intellect can have perfect knowledge, he uses Aristotle to refute this. He cites an observation made in De Anima to prove this. What does he say is in the mind's understanding of things?
(a) Truth and falsehood.
(b) Truth.
(c) Falsehood.
(d) Truth and lies.

5. God can will for the existence of what?
(a) Sin.
(b) Pain.
(c) Evil.
(d) Opposites and their possibilities.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who translated the book?

2. What did Damascene do when he quit his job?

3. Damascene is named after what?

4. When Aquinas turns to the debate format, what is he assuming about the reader?

5. Aquinas shows that his ideas can be _____.

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Aquinas' response about truth?

2. How does Aquinas' education benefit him?

3. Describe the writing of the Summa Theologica.

4. What might someone who is not specially educated in the areas of philosophy and theology think of this book?

5. Describe the format of this book.

6. What is said about whether the intellectual principle is united to the body as its form?

7. What are your thoughts on the layout of the Summa Theologica?

8. Who is Dionysius?

9. What does Aquinas say about the First Article: Whether a Name Can be Given to God?

10. What does Aquinas say about whether there is will in God?

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