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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. An intellect knows multiple things by their difference and can compare them ______________.
(a) From others' experiences.
(b) From afar.
(c) Carefully.
(d) From direct experience.

2. God has imbued all creatures, most especially humanity, to partake of the nature of God and to shed off what?
(a) Judgmental attitudes.
(b) That which holds them back from being more divine and perfect in their being.
(c) Worries and pain.
(d) Human troubles.

3. What is the Second Article of Question XC: On the Essence of Law in four articles?
(a) Whether All Laws are Good.
(b) Whether Law is Always Given by God.
(c) Whether Law Actually Exists.
(d) Whether Law is Always Directed to the Common Good.

4. In Chapter 19-21, the format resumes the structure of the questions with what?
(a) Answers.
(b) Objections.
(c) Objections, answers, and rebuttals.
(d) Rebuttals.

5. Aquinas sees individuating qualities as signs of _____________________ rather than as the type of separation associated with biological and social organizations.
(a) Fundamental togetherness.
(b) Unnatural togetherness.
(c) Unnatural separateness.
(d) Fundamental separateness.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Aquinas mention in the Third Article, when he asks if there is an Agent Intellect?

2. How many articles are there for Question XCI: On The Various Kinds of Law?

3. How many articles are there for Question LXII: The Theological Virtues?

4. Action is used as what?

5. What do some think regarding whether one person can understand one and the same thing better than another can?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Aquinas believe about the human mind?

6. What does Aquinas claim is the behavior of the majority of human action?

7. What are the four articles in response to Question LXII?

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

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

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

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