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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. While the activity of the mind is usually expressed through the living body, with what will it continue in its current form?
(a) The coming of Christ.
(b) The cessation of the material nature.
(c) The birth of new beings.
(d) Accidents and injuries to the brain.

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

3. What is entropy, according to Aquinas?
(a) The loss of information.
(b) Order.
(c) Disorder.
(d) The Creator can reduce a being to nothing.

4. The mind is a phenomenon of the human being that can be ___________ separated and retain function.
(a) Mostly.
(b) Partially.
(c) Entirely.
(d) Slightly.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a psychological purification process?

2. Aquinas was a learned man of what?

3. Whenever you act in accordance with your own truth and values, then your behavior is what?

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

5. What is a Thomist?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Aquinas say about power?

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

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 does Aquinas say about falsity?

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

6. What is Aquinas' response about truth?

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 is a Thomist?

9. Describe the writing of the Summa Theologica.

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

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