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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 LXI: The Cardinal Virtues in five articles?
(a) Whether the Moral Virtues Should be Called Principal or Secondary Virtues.
(b) Whether the Moral Virtues Should be Called Virtues.
(c) Whether the Moral Virtues Should be Called Cardinal or Initial Virtues.
(d) Whether the Moral Virtues Should be Called Cardinal or Principal Virtues.

2. Appetites are ______.
(a) Movable.
(b) Strong.
(c) Changing.
(d) Immovable.

3. The divine essence is compared with what?
(a) Dark.
(b) Prayer.
(c) Love.
(d) Light.

4. Referring to St. Augustine, Aquinas asserts that the human soul benefits from what?
(a) Sleep.
(b) Human knowledge.
(c) Prayer.
(d) Food.

5. In the Fourth Article: Whether Violence Can Be Done To the Will, what type of will does Aquinas describe?
(a) A unique will.
(b) A two-fold will.
(c) An unknown will.
(d) A strange will.

Short Answer Questions

1. God manifests as _____________ within humanity.

2. In Question 85: The Mode and Order of Understanding, the thing is understood and then there is the fact that ____________.

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

4. Who does Aquinas mention in the Third Article, when he asks if there is an Agent Intellect?

5. Is the second article of Question XIII included in the text of this Introduction?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Aquinas believe about the human mind?

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

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

7. What does Aquinas say about agents and action?

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

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

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

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