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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what do most people take refuge, according to the theory proposed by Aristotle, rather than perform virtuous acts?
(a) Pleasure.
(b) Vice.
(c) Talk.
(d) Philosophy.

2. The irrational part of the soul is said by Aristotle to be how many fold?
(a) Four-fold.
(b) Two-fold.
(c) Manifold.
(d) Three-fold.

3. A buffoon is described by Aristotle in IV.8 as someone who goes to extremes in order to make someone else do what?
(a) Laugh.
(b) Abjure the gods.
(c) Steal.
(d) Cry.

4. How do lawmakers make citizens good in the opinion of Aristotle?
(a) By threatening them with punishment.
(b) By informing their intellects.
(c) By habituating them.
(d) By giving them positive incentives.

5. What sort of men, in Aristotle's observations, are most confident in the various situations of war?
(a) The ignorant.
(b) The naturally courageous.
(c) The reckless.
(d) The experienced.

6. In addition to the life of pleasure and the life of politics, what is the third sort of life that Aristotle mentions?
(a) The hermetical life.
(b) The contemplative life.
(c) The life of servitude.
(d) The life of rebellion.

7. How many types of justice are discussed in V.4?
(a) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) One.
(d) Six.

8. The attainment of serious moral stature is described by Aristotle in II.9 as being what?
(a) Natural.
(b) Almost impossible.
(c) Impractical.
(d) Hard work.

9. By what means, according to Aristotle in V.5, does a community or a city stay together?
(a) Exchange.
(b) Religion.
(c) Slavery.
(d) Housebuilding.

10. What is the virtuous disposition most directly concerned, for Aristotle, with playfulness and humor?
(a) Charm.
(b) Wisdom.
(c) Wit.
(d) Pleasantness.

11. What, according to Aristotle in the beginning of V.6, makes an act unjust without necessarily making the person who commits it unjust?
(a) Coercion.
(b) Passion.
(c) Choice.
(d) Deliberation.

12. With what virtue is III.10 concerned?
(a) Temperance.
(b) Courage.
(c) Magnanimity.
(d) Prudence.

13. In contrast to wishing, which is for an end, for what is choosing in Aristotle's philosophical view?
(a) Things related to the self.
(b) Things related to the means.
(c) Things related to others.
(d) Things related to the end.

14. Which of the following does Aristotle not list as a feeling that comes to be present in the soul?
(a) Longing.
(b) Knowledge.
(c) Joy.
(d) Fear.

15. Which of the following most accurately describes the behavior of one of the vices Aristotle discusses in IV.6?
(a) Violent.
(b) Obdurate.
(c) Incoherent.
(d) Obsequious.

Short Answer Questions

1. From Aristotle's perspective, against the yardstick of what do men generally compare their actions?

2. Which of the following sort of expenditures does Aristotle NOT consider to be honorably magnificent?

3. How many sorts of political justice are there by the count of Aristotle?

4. Which word adequately indicates the character of the man whose vice is in opposition to that of the braggart, according to Aristotle's description?

5. For what do praise and blame come about, according to Aristotle in III.1?

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