Liberal Learning - Final Exam
Question and answers already passed
2025/2026
A pair of glasses got left in the sun in Phoenix and the glass broke (true story). This is best explained as a
failure of the:
A. Final Cause
B. Efficient Cause
C. Material Cause
D. Formal Cause - correct answer ✔Material Cause
Relative to a cookie, the Efficient Cause is:
Nourishment
The flour and sugar
cookie-ness
The baker - correct answer ✔The Baker
The Efficient Cause of this particular quiz question that you are reading at this moment is:
Sr. Maria Frassati
You, the quiz taking student
Blackboard
The University of St. Thomas - correct answer ✔Sr. Maria Frassati
The final cause of a tortilla is:
A. Flour
B. Roundness
,C. Abuela
D. Nourishment - correct answer ✔Nourishment
Which two causes are EXTRINSIC to a thing? (select both)
Efficient Cause
Material Cause
Formal Cause
Final Cause - correct answer ✔Efficient Cause
Final Cause
Kintsugi is a really cool Japanese artform that uses gold to mend broken dishes. Here is an example
where you see the gold in what used to be the cracks. After the artist is done, the dish is usable again.
Check out this example:
Gold
The artist
A dish
Beauty - correct answer ✔A dish
When I say that the will seeks the good, the good is what, relative to the will?
Efficient Cause
Material Cause
Formal Cause
Final Cause - correct answer ✔Final Cause
In action, the efficient cause works most closely with:
Final Cause
, Formal Cause
Material Cause - correct answer ✔Material Cause
The material cause of a tree is:
A gardener
"treeness"
Plant cells
To give shade - correct answer ✔Plant cells
When I use a crochet hook to make a yarn blanket:
The hook is the final cause of the blanket.
The hook is part of the material cause because I can hold it in my hand.
The hook is part of the formal cause because it forms the blanket.
The hook is an instrumental efficent cause because it remains extrinsic to the blanket - correct answer
✔The hook is an instrumental efficent cause because it remains extrinsic to the blanket
If you are standing on a chair and it breaks, the company who made it is not liable for your injuries
because you were ignoring which cause?
Efficient Cause
Material Cause
Formal Cause
Final Cause - correct answer ✔Final Cause
In action, the formal cause is most obviously impacted and defined by which other cause?
Final Cause
Efficent Cause
Question and answers already passed
2025/2026
A pair of glasses got left in the sun in Phoenix and the glass broke (true story). This is best explained as a
failure of the:
A. Final Cause
B. Efficient Cause
C. Material Cause
D. Formal Cause - correct answer ✔Material Cause
Relative to a cookie, the Efficient Cause is:
Nourishment
The flour and sugar
cookie-ness
The baker - correct answer ✔The Baker
The Efficient Cause of this particular quiz question that you are reading at this moment is:
Sr. Maria Frassati
You, the quiz taking student
Blackboard
The University of St. Thomas - correct answer ✔Sr. Maria Frassati
The final cause of a tortilla is:
A. Flour
B. Roundness
,C. Abuela
D. Nourishment - correct answer ✔Nourishment
Which two causes are EXTRINSIC to a thing? (select both)
Efficient Cause
Material Cause
Formal Cause
Final Cause - correct answer ✔Efficient Cause
Final Cause
Kintsugi is a really cool Japanese artform that uses gold to mend broken dishes. Here is an example
where you see the gold in what used to be the cracks. After the artist is done, the dish is usable again.
Check out this example:
Gold
The artist
A dish
Beauty - correct answer ✔A dish
When I say that the will seeks the good, the good is what, relative to the will?
Efficient Cause
Material Cause
Formal Cause
Final Cause - correct answer ✔Final Cause
In action, the efficient cause works most closely with:
Final Cause
, Formal Cause
Material Cause - correct answer ✔Material Cause
The material cause of a tree is:
A gardener
"treeness"
Plant cells
To give shade - correct answer ✔Plant cells
When I use a crochet hook to make a yarn blanket:
The hook is the final cause of the blanket.
The hook is part of the material cause because I can hold it in my hand.
The hook is part of the formal cause because it forms the blanket.
The hook is an instrumental efficent cause because it remains extrinsic to the blanket - correct answer
✔The hook is an instrumental efficent cause because it remains extrinsic to the blanket
If you are standing on a chair and it breaks, the company who made it is not liable for your injuries
because you were ignoring which cause?
Efficient Cause
Material Cause
Formal Cause
Final Cause - correct answer ✔Final Cause
In action, the formal cause is most obviously impacted and defined by which other cause?
Final Cause
Efficent Cause
