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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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?
(a) Having two different things.
(b) Having intellect.
(c) Having two things.
(d) Knowing their difference.

3. He writes that men [and women] judge others on the basis of what?
(a) Their intended objectives.
(b) Their current knowledge.
(c) Others encourage them to believe.
(d) God's laws.

4. Who does Aquinas mention in the Third Article, when he asks if there is an Agent Intellect?
(a) Augustine, Aristotle, and Plato.
(b) Augustine, Dionysius, and Aristotle.
(c) Socrates, Dionysius, and Augustine.
(d) Aristotle, Plato, and Socrates.

5. 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) Six.
(b) Three.
(c) Four.
(d) Five.

6. While still part of The Summa Theologica, chapters 19-21 are an entirely ___________ part.
(a) Different.
(b) Strange.
(c) Unusual.
(d) Useless.

7. The Fourth Article emphasizes the immaterial nature of ______________.
(a) Mind.
(b) Soul.
(c) Body.
(d) Man.

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

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

10. The distinction between two things is a subdivision of ___________ of a whole.
(a) Understanding.
(b) Knowledge.
(c) What is to be understood.
(d) These things.

11. Aquinas believes that it is virtually self-evident that there is _____________ for there to be greater or lesser understanding between individuals.
(a) No way.
(b) Only one way.
(c) Two ways.
(d) More than one way.

12. What do both contemplation and action contain?
(a) Peace.
(b) Hope.
(c) Choice.
(d) Prayer.

13. Aquinas claims that _________________ observes, categorizes, and determines what would be harmful and what would be helpful to an entity, person, or organism.
(a) The irascible power.
(b) The concupiscible power.
(c) The essence of power.
(d) The prelapsarian power.

14. 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 important and necessary.
(c) Of the saintly hierarchy as immaterial and intelligible.
(d) Of the angelic hierarchy as important and necessary.

15. The statement in number 137 is _______________ his other point that action is what manifests essence.
(a) Similar to.
(b) Contrary to.
(c) The same as.
(d) Somewhat like.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many articles exist to discuss the powers of the soul in particular?

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

3. Appetites are ______.

4. The divine essence is compared with what?

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

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