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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. God's power dwells throughout every one of what?
(a) God's actions.
(b) Man's thoughts.
(c) God's beings.
(d) Man's actions.

2. Is created truth eternal, according to Aquinas?
(a) No, not all of the truth is eternal, but all that is eternal is the truth.
(b) Yes, all truth is eternal, but not all that is eternal is the truth.
(c) No, no truth is eternal, and nothing eternal is truth.
(d) Yes, all truth is eternal.

3. Damascene was later canonized as what?
(a) Both a thinker and teacher.
(b) Both a healer and a thinker.
(c) Both a healer and teacher.
(d) Both a priest and rabbi.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Dionysius was known as what?

2. Is God omnipotent?

3. What helped with the development of the philosophy mentioned in number 6?

4. God can will for the existence of what?

5. In Question II, The Existence of God, how many articles does Aquinas cover the self-evidence of God, addresses difficulties posed by conditions that cannot be demonstrated, and demonstrable proof of God's existence?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Aquinas say about falsity?

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

3. 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?

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

5. Who is Damascene?

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

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

8. What is said about angels?

9. What is Aquinas' response about truth?

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

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