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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 sees individuating qualities as signs of _____________________ rather than as the type of separation associated with biological and social organizations.
(a) Fundamental togetherness.
(b) Fundamental separateness.
(c) Unnatural separateness.
(d) Unnatural togetherness.

2. The Second Article is more intimately connected with Church doctrine: separating irascible from _____________.
(a) A hot temper.
(b) Anger.
(c) Concupiscence.
(d) Provocation.

3. How many articles exist to discuss the powers of the soul in particular?
(a) Four.
(b) Eight.
(c) Ten.
(d) Two.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do both contemplation and action contain?

3. The divine essence is compared with what?

4. What is the First Article for Question LXIII: The Cause of the Virtues?

5. He writes that men [and women] judge others on the basis of what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What are the four articles in response to Question LXII?

7. Can violence be done to the will?

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

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

10. What is the first question pertaining to the issue of law?

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