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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 for Question LXIII: The Cause of the Virtues?
(a) Whether Virtue is Found by Accident.
(b) Whether Virtue Exists in Man.
(c) Whether Virtue is in us by Nature.
(d) Whether Virtue is Real.

2. What description does Aquinas provide regarding whether the intellectual soul knows itself by its essence?
(a) Of the saintly hierarchy as immaterial and intelligible.
(b) Of the angelic hierarchy as important and necessary.
(c) Of the angelic hierarchy as immaterial and intelligible.
(d) Of the saintly hierarchy as important and necessary.

3. The Fifth Article about whether our intellect understands by composition and division makes it clear that composition and division of the intellect are made by ____________________.
(a) Guessing.
(b) Genetics.
(c) Those around the intellectual.
(d) Differentiating and comparing.

4. The intellect gives virtue and power to the soul, but is the intellect the soul in and of itself?
(a) Maybe.
(b) Probably.
(c) Yes.
(d) No.

5. 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 Actually Exists.
(c) Whether Law is Always Given by God.
(d) Whether Law is Always Directed to the Common Good.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Second Article is focused upon differentiating the sensitive and the intellectual appetites: are they different powers?

2. God has imbued all creatures, most especially humanity, to partake of the nature of God and to shed off what?

3. At its best, An Introduction to Saint Thomas Aquinas clarifies the mind, provides instruction and insight. It displays the vigorous efforts made by ___________ to come to terms with two of the top Grecian philosophers.

4. He writes that men [and women] judge others on the basis of what?

5. Aquinas refers to Plato's theory of ____________.

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Aquinas say about choice and how it is an act of the will in relation to the means to an end?

2. What does Aquinas say about the tendency of all things being like unto God?

3. What does Aquinas say about the difference between irascible and concupiscence?

4. Can violence be done to the will?

5. What is the purpose of an introduction to Saint Thomas Aquinas?

6. How does Aquinas respond in the First Article to the question of whether the intellectual and the soul are one and the same?

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

8. What does Aquinas believe about the human mind?

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

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

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