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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 does Aquinas claim is the majority of human action?
(a) Active behavior.
(b) Purposive behavior.
(c) Purposeless behavior.
(d) Inactive behavior.

2. Second Article: Whether the Mean of Moral Virtue is a Real Mean or a Mean of Reason completes what?
(a) This type of discussion on morality.
(b) This type of discussion on virtue.
(c) This type of discussion on love.
(d) This type of discussion on intellect.

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

4. People should assume that there is more to the region than what?
(a) Most people know.
(b) Has been discovered.
(c) God has told them.
(d) Is in the Bible.

5. The Second Article is focused upon differentiating the sensitive and the intellectual appetites: are they different powers?
(a) They are of one motive.
(b) They are of two motives.
(c) They are of many motives.
(d) They are not of any motive.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When is man's ultimate happiness, according to Aquinas?

3. In the Fourth Article: Whether Violence Can Be Done To the Will, what type of will does Aquinas describe?

4. Aquinas goes back to pre-Socratic times and the observation that the system is rooted in motion, which ___________ certainty.

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Aquinas see individuating qualities?

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

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

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

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

8. What does Aquinas say about agents and action?

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

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

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