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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. What is the First Article of Question 58, On the Difference Between Moral and Intellectual Virtues?
(a) Whether Every Virtue is a Moral Virtue.
(b) Whether Morality Exists in Virtue.
(c) Whether Virtue Exists in Morality.
(d) Whether Every Moral is a Virtue.

2. Aquinas goes back to pre-Socratic times and the observation that the system is rooted in motion, which ___________ certainty.
(a) Supports.
(b) Is similar to.
(c) Undermines.
(d) Benefits.

3. The matter of whether the essence of the soul is its power involves whether ____________________ soul are separate and distinct or not.
(a) The irrational and rational.
(b) The concrete and abstract.
(c) The intellectual and spiritual.
(d) The sensitive and the rational.

4. One will is immediate and the rest may be the same or the guidance of ___________ which governs the events.
(a) A lower will.
(b) A special will.
(c) Some higher will.
(d) Several higher wills.

5. What is the Summa Theologica part of?
(a) The Koran.
(b) A new tradition.
(c) A long tradition.
(d) The Bible.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Second Article concerns whether the intellect is a purely _________ power or not.

2. The next set of questions are focused on what issue?

3. How many articles are there for Question LXIV: On the Mean of Virtue?

4. In Question XII: On Intention. Whether intention is an Act of the Intellect or of the Will, how many objections are made to the first article?

5. Aquinas discusses agents and ____________.

Short Essay Questions

1. Can one person understand one and the same thing better than another can?

2. What does Aquinas say about whether we can understand many things at the same time?

3. What does Aquinas say about God being the end of things?

4. What does Aquinas claim in Chapter XLVII That in this Life We Are Unable to See God in His Essence?

5. What does Aquinas say about whether the intellectual soul knows itself by its essence?

6. How do the two actions mentioned in number 51 contain choice?

7. What does Aquinas say when he discusses how the soul while united to the body understands corporeal things beneath it?

8. What does Aquinas say in the Second Article, regarding whether the intellect is a purely passive power or not?

9. What does the matter of whether the essence of the soul is its power involve?

10. How does Aquinas see individuating qualities?

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