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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. The Second Article concerns whether the intellect is a purely _________ power or not.
(a) Strong.
(b) Deadly.
(c) Passive.
(d) Aggresive.

2. What do some think regarding whether one person can understand one and the same thing better than another can?
(a) Only perfect understanding or complete lack of understanding exists.
(b) No one can know more than another.
(c) No one has perfect understanding or a complete lack of understanding.
(d) Perfect understanding is not possible.

3. According to Aquinas, God is the end of things as something to be obtained by each thing in what way?
(a) One way.
(b) Its own way.
(c) God's way.
(d) A few ways.

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

5. Aquinas also believes that humans do perceive the same principles when they use_______________ thought.
(a) True and false.
(b) Abstract and conceptual.
(c) Abstract and concrete.
(d) Real and imagined.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Fourth Article is Whether We Can Understand Many Things at the Same Time. What does Aquinas say that the ability to distinguish two things involves?

2. Aquinas discusses agents and ____________.

3. What is the First Article for Question LXIII: The Cause of the Virtues?

4. The divine essence is compared with what?

5. Appetites are ______.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What comparisons are made regarding arguments that would seem to prove that God cannot be seen in His essence and their solution?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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