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Summa: Question 3 Exam
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1When we speak of God's simplicity we speak of the fact that God is not composed of parts, or compounded of elements.
- ATrue
- BFalse
2In God there is no passive potentiality at all; God is pure actuality.
- ATrue
- BFalse
3 In God there is no composition of matter and form.
- ATrue
- BFalse
4 God is his own existence
- ATrue
- BFalse
5God is composed of substance and accidentals.
- ATrue
- BFalse
6An apple is a substance.
- ATrue
- BFalse
7God is not a part or element of anything else.
- ATrue
- BFalse
8God's absolute simplicity in being and essence conflicts with the subsistence of the simple divine essence in the three distinct Persons of the Blessed Trinity.
- ATrue
- BFalse
9When something is not composed of parts, we call that thing:
- Asimple
- Bcompound
- Cbroken
- Dround
10A body is subject to:
- Amotion and change
- Bgrowth and death
- Csize and shape
- Drange and speed
11If God is the unmoved First-Mover, then he is not subject to:
- Amotion and change
- Bgravity and friction
- Csize and shape
- Dactuality and independence
12God is pure [blank_start]actuality[blank_end].
- Aactuality
13A body is always in the state of potentiality, that is:
- AIt is capable of being acted on by causes.
- BIt is never doing anything.
- CIt can be anything it wants to be.
- DIt is compounded of elements.
14A body is:
- Acomposed of matter
- Ba pure actuality
- Csubject to motion and change
- Dalways in the state of potentiality
- Esimple
15In God there is:
- Ano material composition
- Bno composition of potentiality and actuality
- Cmany parts and compounded elements
- Dpassive potentiality
16The element common to all bodies and the element by which a body is bodily is:
- Aprimal matter
- Bsubstance
- Cform
- Dcomposition
17All bodies are composed of:
- Aprimal matter
- Bsubstantial form
- Ccompounded elements
- Dbillions of cells
18The substantial determinant in each body which makes it an existing body of its essential kind is called:
- Asubstantial form
- Bprimal matter
- Cfirst cause
- Dmaterial composition
19A body [blank_start]has[blank_end] its nature or working essence. God does not [blank_start]have[blank_end] anything.
- Ahas
- Bhave
20A body is always composed of an essence or nature concreted in:
- Aan individual subject
- Ba potentiality
- Cits own essence
- Dits own existence
21God is his own nature.
- ATrue
- BFalse
22Why does God not -have- anything?
- AIf he did he would be in potentiality towards having it and would receive it from some prior being
- Bif he did then nothing else could have anything
- Cif he did then he would be composed of primal matter
- Dif he did he would be a pure actuality with no compounding of a nature with the individual subject which has that nature
23There is no being prior to the [blank_start]First[blank_end] [blank_start]Being[blank_end].
- AFirst
- BBeing
24Creatures, bodily or spiritual, are composed of [blank_start]essence[blank_end] and [blank_start]existence[blank_end].
- Aessence
- Bexistence
25[blank_start]Essence[blank_end] receives existence.
- AEssence
26[blank_start]Existence[blank_end] is received by essence to make an existing creature.
- AExistence
27Since God is the First Being, there is nothing [blank_start]prior[blank_end] to him from which his essence could receive existence.
- Aprior
28God does not receive anything of his being.
- ATrue
- BFalse
29It is God's essence to exist.
- ATrue
- BFalse
30In God, [blank_start]essence[blank_end] and [blank_start]existence[blank_end] are absolutely one and the same.
- Aessence
- Bexistence
31God is a compound of essence and existence.
- ATrue
- BFalse
32The general essential class of things to which a creature belongs is its:
- Agenus
- Bphylum
- Cspecific difference
- Dexistence
33We understand an organism as belonging to the general class of [blank_start]body[blank_end], and as marked off from body-as-such by the fact that it has [blank_start]life[blank_end].
- Abody
- Blife
34We understand and define a creature by:
- Aknowing its genus
- Badding to its genus its specific difference
- Crecognizing its material form
- Dknowing its essence
35In God there is no composition or compounding of genus and difference.
- ATrue
- BFalse
36The special difference by which a creature is essentially distinguished from other members of its class is:
- Aits specific difference
- Bits genus
- Cits composition
- Dit's material form
37A [blank_start]substance[blank_end] is a reality that is naturally suited to exist as itself, and not as the mark or determinant of some other thing.
- Asubstance
38An [blank_start]accidental[blank_end] is a reality that is suited to exist as of something other than itself.
- Aaccidental
39The fact that an apple is red is part of that apple's substance.
- ATrue
- BFalse
40The color of an apple is [blank_start]accidental[blank_end] to the substance of the apple.
- Aaccidental
41 A creatural substance is said to be composed of [blank_start]substance[blank_end] and inhering [blank_start]accidentals[blank_end].
- Asubstance
- Baccidentals
42A creatural substance has [blank_start]accidentals[blank_end]. In God there are no [blank_start]accidentals[blank_end] at all.
- Aaccidentals
- Baccidentals
43All that God has, God is.
- ATrue
- BFalse
44God is not composed of parts of elements of any kind. God is absolutely [blank_start]simple[blank_end].
- Asimple
45What is an element or part of a compound cannot act [blank_start]primarily[blank_end] and [blank_start]essentially[blank_end]; only the completed compound can act so.
- Aprimarily
- Bessentially
46One can think of God as a "world soul" or as primal matter.
- ATrue
- BFalse
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- Complete the Exam for Question 3 of the Summa: The simplicity of God This Exam covers all of the articles under Question 3.
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