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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. Whenever you act in accordance with your own truth and values, then your behavior is what?
(a) Unusual.
(b) Beneficial only to oneself.
(c) In unity with your essence.
(d) Not in accordance with God's will.

2. Which of these men of Athens is the youngest?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Diogenes.
(d) Plato.

3. What areas of study might be important when reading this book?
(a) Art and literature.
(b) Philosophy and theology.
(c) Greek mythology.
(d) Philosophy.

4. He attempted to reconcile philosophy with what?
(a) Theology.
(b) Greek mythology.
(c) His culture.
(d) Psychology.

5. He states that words do relate to actual things. It is also important to note that the mind has an important role in language. That is why Aquinas introduces the idea of naming things by and with what?
(a) Size and concentration.
(b) Quantity and purpose.
(c) Intention and understanding.
(d) Alphabetical order and an assistant.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Damascene live for many years?

2. The objections in this book are legitimate opposition to what?

3. Who translated the book?

4. God can will for the existence of what?

5. Does God ever will sin or evil?

Short Essay Questions

1. Does God will sin or evil?

2. What does Aquinas say to the objections that the will of God must always be fulfilled?

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

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

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

6. When Aquinas turns to the debate format, what does he assume? What are the consequences of this?

7. What is Aquinas' response to Question LXXV On Man who is Composed of a Spiritual and a Corporeal Substance: And First, Concerning What Belongs to the Essence of the Soul?

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

9. What does Aquinas say about falsity?

10. What does Aquinas say about God's omnipotence?

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