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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In exchange for what is it perhaps enough, according to IX.1, to give what one can in return?
(a) Mathematical learning.
(b) Knowledge of the gods.
(c) Philosophy.
(d) Health.

2. What does Aristotle, in VIII.5, say causes forgetfulness of friendship?
(a) Old age.
(b) Absence.
(c) Betrayal.
(d) Lust.

3. Which of the powers of the soul that Aristotle claims is used to disclose truth is directed at the sources of truth?
(a) Knowledge.
(b) Wisdom.
(c) Intellect.
(d) Practical judgment.

4. What principally occupies the topic of discussion in X.6?
(a) Idleness.
(b) Thinking.
(c) Recreation.
(d) Work.

5. 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) Mentorship.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Friendship.
(d) Parenting.

Short Answer Questions

1. As Aristotle says in X.3, according to some people, if pleasure is not classed among qualities, it is also not classed among what?

2. How many powers of the soul does Aristotle claim disclose truth by discursive reasoning?

3. For what sort of living environment does Aristotle say the human being is meant in IX.9?

4. Which two thinkers does Aristotle reference in X.8 concerning the nature of those who are happy?

5. What quality does Aristotle state is involved in friendship in IX.6?

Short Essay Questions

1. Through the possession of what virtue, according to Aristotle, is man said to have possession of all the intellectual virtues, at least to some degree, and why?

2. Why do friendships of utility quickly come about and subsequently dissolve, according to Aristotle?

3. Explain Aristotle's distinction between affection and friendship.

4. What is the Aristotelian relationship between happiness, the gods, human beings, and animals, as discussed in X.8?

5. Why does Aristotle state that politics and practical judgment cannot be the highest or most serious things for man's consideration?

6. Explain the three sorts of friendship described in Book VIII.

7. Why is it said by Aristotle that the lesser types of friendship are called friendship only insofar as they resemble the highest?

8. What does Aristotle intend to convey by comparing vice to the disease of consumption (tuberculosis)?

9. Give an example of something affirmed by knowledge, as that which cannot be otherwise than it is.

10. Why does Aristotle state that there is a virtue connected with art, but that practical judgment is itself an end?

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