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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. 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.
(b) Truth and lies.
(c) Falsehood.
(d) Truth and falsehood.

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

3. According to Aquinas, Aristotle says that the soul is only separable from the body inasmuch as what?
(a) One believes it to be.
(b) God wants it to be.
(c) The separation of mind and body at death.
(d) Thoughts and practices are.

4. Damascene is named after what?
(a) The leader of his country.
(b) His mother's maiden name.
(c) A god.
(d) Damascus, Syria which was his homeland.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Angels are often images that represent what?

2. What is the reason why God has no name, or is said to be above being named?

3. What is epistemology?

4. In what must the exemplar of the order of things towards their end exist?

5. "God will have all men to be _____________" (p. 204.)

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Aquinas say about power?

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

4. How was Aquinas able to write this book successfully?

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

6. Describe the writing of the Summa Theologica.

7. Describe the format of this book.

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

9. What is a Thomist?

10. Does God will sin or evil?

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