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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. When Aquinas turns to the debate format, what is he assuming about the reader?
(a) The reader wants this debate format.
(b) The reader is aware of the main intellectual controversies of this era.
(c) The reader is well-versed in debate.
(d) The reader is in agreement with him on debate issues.

2. The Summa Theologica is a tome of what?
(a) Augustine's philosophical theology.
(b) Catholic philosophical theology.
(c) Aristotle's philosophical theology.
(d) Thomas Aquinas' philosophical theology.

3. Aquinas further asserts that God's action and essence are in what?
(a) Constant change.
(b) Constant turmoil.
(c) Constant conflict.
(d) Constant unity.

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

5. Is there Will in God?
(a) Yes, God's good is His own will.
(b) No, there is no will in God.
(c) Yes, there can be will in God.
(d) Yes, often there is will in God.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Damascene live for many years?

2. Objections and refutations to those objections are presented for what reasons?

3. What is entropy, according to Aquinas?

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?

5. Aquinas writes of the Creator's powers in relation to what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Aquinas say about God's action and essence?

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

3. What is said in response to the question of whether truth resides only in the intellect?

4. What does Aquinas say about falsity?

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

6. Does God will sin or evil?

7. What does Aquinas say about potentiality and actuality?

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

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

10. 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?

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