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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Aristotle say one must do in addition to knowing virtue?
(a) Engage in discourse concerning virtue.
(b) Perform virtue.
(c) Contemplate virtue.
(d) Instruct others in virtue.

2. In what city alone does Aristotle say that the lawgiver has taken care for upbringing and virtuous exercises?
(a) Crete.
(b) Delphi.
(c) Athens.
(d) Sparta.

3. Near the end of X.3, Aristotle says that no one would choose to live their lives having the thinking of what sort of person?
(a) A child.
(b) An animal.
(c) A woman.
(d) A moron.

4. Words that concern things such as feelings and actions are less believable than what, according to Aristotle?
(a) Words concerning judgments.
(b) Feelings themselves.
(c) Words concerning being.
(d) Actions themselves.

5. For what does Aristotle blame people when it comes to money, honor, victory, and gain?
(a) Feigning interest in their acquisition.
(b) Desiring them to excess.
(c) Desiring them in any way.
(d) Condemning those who seek them.

6. What two forces does Aristotle claim determine the strength of an obligation to another person, in a situation where there is a conflict, according to IX.2?
(a) Justice and mercy.
(b) Earth and fire.
(c) Debt and love.
(d) Beauty and necessity.

7. In VIII.12, Aristotle states that every sort of friendship is in what?
(a) A family.
(b) A government.
(c) A marriage.
(d) A community.

8. Aristotle states in X.4 that a change of place is what?
(a) An illusion, for everything is change.
(b) A circuit from one "where" to the same "where."
(c) A motion from one "where" to another "where."
(d) An illusion, for there is no change of place.

9. Among what sort of people does Aristotle regard mutual and equal friendships complete in all respects?
(a) Alike people.
(b) Elderly people.
(c) Virtuous people.
(d) Free people.

10. What sort of rule is opposite to that of a just monarch, according to the observations of Aristotle?
(a) Aristocracy.
(b) Tyranny.
(c) Democracy.
(d) Republicanism.

11. With the beginnings of what consideration does Aristotle end the Ethics?
(a) The human soul.
(b) Virtuous men.
(c) Metaphysics.
(d) Political states.

12. What person does Aristotle claim most notably feels love just in knowing a person, and not in receiving love returned?
(a) A father.
(b) A spouse.
(c) A just ruler.
(d) A mother.

13. What sort of pleasures are said by Aristotle to not have an excess?
(a) Those whose contraries are painful.
(b) Those that are pleasant to the virtuous.
(c) Those that are pleasureful incidentally.
(d) Those that involve no pains.

14. What sort of relationship does Aristotle claim is impossible for people who do not have the quality mentioned at the beginning of IX.5?
(a) Friendship.
(b) Mentorship.
(c) Marriage.
(d) Parenting.

15. With what virtue does Aristotle credit Eudoxus in X.2?
(a) Courage.
(b) Wisdom.
(c) Justice.
(d) Temperance.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what sort of friendship are there no complaints, according to the view of Aristotle?

2. Actions that pertain to what two things are considered by Aristotle to be the most beautiful and magnificent?

3. While in the throes of true friendship, Aristotle states at the end of Book IX that one has the same relationship with a friend as he does with whom?

4. Without what power of the soul does Aristotle state there cannot be a governing part of the soul?

5. Which kind of incontinence is least blameless, according to Aristotle's claims in VII.6?

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