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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. How many articles are there for Question XCI: On The Various Kinds of Law?
(a) Six.
(b) Five.
(c) Three.
(d) Four.

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

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

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

5. God manifests as _____________ within humanity.
(a) Goodness.
(b) Fear.
(c) Jesus.
(d) Light.

Short Answer Questions

1. While still part of The Summa Theologica, chapters 19-21 are an entirely ___________ part.

2. Referring to St. Augustine, Aquinas asserts that the human soul benefits from what?

3. How many articles are there for Question XVIII: On the Goodness and Malice of Human Acts in General?

4. Aquinas discusses agents and ____________.

5. Angels consist of ____________ only.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. How does Aquinas see individuating qualities?

10. What does Aquinas believe about the human mind?

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