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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. From where do some of the objections come in regards to whether the intellectual principle is united to the body as its form?
(a) The Socratic Method.
(b) Aristotle's rhetoric.
(c) Plato's studies.
(d) DesCartes type of dualism.

2. Whose will does Aquinas believe should always be fulfilled?
(a) His own.
(b) The Pope's.
(c) God's.
(d) One's own.

3. How was Aquinas able to write this work?
(a) When he was ill and bedridden.
(b) Over the course of a few tedious months.
(c) Through tremendous education and prepatory work.
(d) Through the tremendous help of others.

4. What helped with the development of the philosophy mentioned in number 6?
(a) The birth of the prophet Mohammed.
(b) The arrival of Buddha.
(c) The arrival of Christ.
(d) The arrival of the prophet Mohammed.

5. Aquinas includes the role of language as part of the puzzle of what?
(a) God's name.
(b) Theology.
(c) Mythology.
(d) Creation.

Short Answer Questions

1. The truth or perception is that the living soul is the mind intimately associated with what?

2. Reading the Summa is much like trying to read what?

3. Dionysius was known as what?

4. Angels appear _______________ in many cases.

5. What is a Thomist?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the writing of the Summa Theologica.

2. What does Aquinas say about falsity?

3. Who is Aristotle? How is he important to this book?

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

5. Who is Dionysius?

6. What do many of the questions and answers Aquinas discusses reveal about him?

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

8. What does Aquinas say about power?

9. Who writes the introduction? What is assumed by the translation of this book?

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

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