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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 Virtue Exists in Morality.
(b) Whether Every Moral is a Virtue.
(c) Whether Every Virtue is a Moral Virtue.
(d) Whether Morality Exists in Virtue.

2. He writes that men [and women] judge others on the basis of what?
(a) Others encourage them to believe.
(b) Their intended objectives.
(c) God's laws.
(d) Their current knowledge.

3. God is the leader and ____________ are led by Him.
(a) Saints.
(b) Disciples.
(c) Angels.
(d) Men.

4. What does Aquinas differentiate between in the First Article?
(a) Angels and people.
(b) People and animals.
(c) Angels and saints.
(d) Angels and God.

5. While still part of The Summa Theologica, chapters 19-21 are an entirely ___________ part.
(a) Unusual.
(b) Different.
(c) Strange.
(d) Useless.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Whether the intellectual principle is multiplied according to the number of bodies has to do with what?

3. The statement in number 137 is _______________ his other point that action is what manifests essence.

4. Aquinas introduces the idea of one mind. Is every event of the mind the same mind in action?

5. In The End of Man: The Summa Contra Gentiles: Third Book: Chapter I That Every Agent Acts For an End, what behavior does Aquinas refer to?

Short Essay Questions

1. For Question 58, what is discussed in the First and Second Articles?

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

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

4. What two actions contain choice?

5. What does Aquinas say about agents and action?

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

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

8. Can violence be done to the will?

9. What does Aquinas say about differentiating the sensitive and and the intellectual appetites?

10. What is the analogy Aquinas uses in regards to God and all things being directed to one end?

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