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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. How is power twofold?
(a) Both active and inactive.
(b) Both passive and active.
(c) Both passive and aggressive.
(d) Both aggressive and inactive.

2. Aquinas did not have the advantage of what?
(a) Thinkers.
(b) Contemporary neuroscience.
(c) Scripture.
(d) An education.

3. The truth or perception is that the living soul is the mind intimately associated with what?
(a) The body.
(b) Other minds.
(c) Angels.
(d) God.

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

5. What does Aquinas mean by truth that is immutable?
(a) It must be changed in some circumstances.
(b) It changes often.
(c) It can be changed.
(d) It does not and cannot be changed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Aquinas then broaches the matter of what substances?

2. Is God omnipotent?

3. Does God ever will sin or evil?

4. What is equally much an element of soul, and in this manner the life-giving breath of God is included?

5. What is entropy, according to Aquinas?

Short Essay Questions

1. Does God will sin or evil?

2. How does Aquinas' education benefit him?

3. What is said about angels?

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

5. The sixth article takes up the matter of the puzzle of whether the human soul is corruptible or incorruptible. What does Aquinas say about this?

6. Describe the format of this book.

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 does Aquinas say about potentiality and actuality?

9. What is Aquinas' response about truth?

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

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