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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. Aquinas refers to Plato's theory of ____________.
(a) Abstractionism.
(b) Shapes.
(c) Forms.
(d) Gravity.

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

3. How many articles are there in Question XIII: On Choice, Which is an Act of the Will in Relation to the Means to an End?
(a) Four.
(b) Three.
(c) Five.
(d) Six.

4. Aquinas introduces the idea of one mind. Is every event of the mind the same mind in action?
(a) Usually.
(b) Yes.
(c) Most of the time.
(d) No.

5. When there is an organizer or leader of a group, Aquinas explains that only the leader is considered to be what?
(a) The agent.
(b) The actor.
(c) The reagent.
(d) The reactor.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Second Article is more intimately connected with Church doctrine: separating irascible from _____________.

2. 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?

3. The essence of an angel is knowledge and what else?

4. What is the First Article of Question 58, On the Difference Between Moral and Intellectual Virtues?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What are the six articles on the various kinds of law?

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

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

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

7. What two actions contain choice?

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

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

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

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