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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. In Question 84: How the Soul While United to the Body Understands Corporeal Things Beneath It in Eight Articles, Aquinas gets into _____________ historiography of the quest for knowledge and certainty regarding the truth.
(a) A more complex yet brief.
(b) A more complex and extended.
(c) A simple and short.
(d) A simple yet long.

2. At its best, An Introduction to Saint Thomas Aquinas clarifies the mind, provides instruction and insight. It displays the vigorous efforts made by ___________ to come to terms with two of the top Grecian philosophers.
(a) The Catholic religion.
(b) The religious.
(c) All Christians.
(d) Muslims.

3. How many objections and replies exist in the Fourth Article: Whether Choice is of Those Things Only That are Done By Us?
(a) Two.
(b) Three.
(c) Eight.
(d) Four.

4. When is man's ultimate happiness, according to Aquinas?
(a) Not in this life.
(b) In old age.
(c) In childhood.
(d) In this life.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Summa Theologica part of?

2. The Fifth Article about whether our intellect understands by composition and division makes it clear that composition and division of the intellect are made by ____________________.

3. How many articles are there for Question XCIV: The Natural Law?

4. What do both contemplation and action contain?

5. Choice is the theme, and what is 'choice' described as?

Short Essay Questions

1. For Question 58, what is discussed in the First and Second Articles?

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

3. What does Aquinas believe about the human mind?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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