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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 does Aquinas define providence?
(a) The ability of man to govern the universe.
(b) The desires of man.
(c) A city in Rhode Island.
(d) The exemplar of things ordered towards an end.

2. Aquinas brings up the divergent views regarding what, saying that there are two lines of teaching?
(a) Facilitator and delegator.
(b) Demonstrator and Learner.
(c) Formal authority and personal model.
(d) Corruptible and incorruptible.

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

4. Angels appear _______________ in many cases.
(a) As crowds.
(b) In large groups.
(c) As individuals.
(d) In small groups.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Many of the questions in the Summa Theologica are ____________________.

2. What does Aquinas mean by truth that is immutable?

3. Who had a Christian best friend for many years?

4. The idea of spontaneous generation has been extended to who?

5. What power does not exist at all in God?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Aquinas say about potentiality and actuality?

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

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

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

7. What is a Thomist?

8. What is said about angels?

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

10. What does Aquinas say about falsity?

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