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St. Thomas Aquinas Five Ways pt 1

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 13mins

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Class
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1.

For St. Thomas Aquinas' Four Causes, he refers the 'cause' to mean...

a)

Cause and Effect

b)

Reason for something

c)

unmoved mover

d)

uncaused cause

2.

The First Cause is the...

a)

Formal Cause

b)

Material Cause

c)

Efficient Cause

d)

Final Cause

3.

The 'idea of thing' refers to...

a)

Formal Cause

b)

Material Cause

c)

Efficient Cause

d)

Final Cause

4.

The second cause is...

a)

Formal Cause

b)

Material Cause

c)

Efficient Cause

d)

Final Cause

5.

'Stuff from which it is made' refers to the...

a)

Formal Cause

b)

Material Cause

c)

Efficient Cause

d)

Final Cause

6.

The third cause is...

a)

Formal Cause

b)

Material Cause

c)

Efficient Cause

d)

Final Cause

7.

'Agent' refers to...

a)

Formal Cause

b)

Material Cause

c)

Efficient Cause

d)

Final Cause

8.

The fourth cause is...

a)

Formal Cause

b)

Material Cause

c)

Efficient Cause

d)

Final Cause

9.

The recipe for a musubi would be the ______________ Cause

a)

Formal

b)

Material

c)

Efficient

d)

Final

10.

An example for the Material Cause of a musubi would be rice, nori, and spam.

a)

True

b)

False

11.

The cook or chef of the musubi would be the ___________ Cause.

a)

Formal

b)

Material

c)

Efficient

d)

Final

12.

The question 'Does God exist?' is a __________________ question.

a)

Philosophical

b)

Theological

c)

Mathematical

d)

Biological

13.

All of the following statements are true about Philosophy except...

a)

"Love of Wisdom"

b)

Regards natural knowledge

c)

Body of knowledge we can know by reason.

d)

"study of God"

14.

All of the following are true about Theology except...

a)

Body of knowledge we can know by divine revelation.

b)

Pertains to truths known by prophecy or divine revelation

c)

"Study of God"

d)

Pertains only to what we can know by raw reason.

15.

St. Thomas Aquinas says that, "God is not self evident."

a)

True, we must reason to the conclusion that God exists.

b)

False

16.

Five Ways in Latin is...

a)

Deo Gratias

b)

Dominus Vobiscum

c)

Quenqui Viae

d)

Quinque Viae

17.

St. Thomas' First Way is the Argument from...

a)

Motion

b)

Efficient Causes

c)

Possibility

d)

Design

18.

Since all things are in motion, there must be something that is the first "_____________ ___________," which we call God.

a)

unmoved mover

b)

uncaused cause

c)

unspoken word

d)

unheard word

19.

According to the Argument from Motion, only an actual motion can convert a potential motion into actual motion.

a)

True

b)

False

20.

According to the Argument from Motion, anything can move itself.

a)

True

b)

False

21.

All of the following are true about the Argument from Motion except..

a)

Each thing in motion is moved by something else.

b)

The sequence of motion can extend for infinity.

c)

Nothing can move itself.

d)

Nothing can be at once in both actuality and potentiality in the same respect.

22.

St. Thomas' Second Way is the "Argument from ___________ __________."

a)

Motion

b)

Efficient Causes

c)

Formal Causes

d)

Material Causes

23.

According to the Second Way of Thomas Aquinas, nothing exists prior to itself.

a)

True

b)

False

24.

"If a previous efficient cause does not exist, neither does the thing that results."

a)

True

b)

False

25.

The series of efficient causes cannot extend for infinity into the past, for then there would be no things existing now.

a)

True

b)

False

c)

I have never seen this statement before in my life.

d)

What is life?