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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book VIII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what period of life does Aristotle state that the friendship of utility most frequently appears?
(a) Youth.
(b) Old age.
(c) Middle age.
(d) One's prime.

2. What determines, according to Aristotle's arguments in V.8, the justice or injustice of one's actions?
(a) Whether or not it deals with the whole person.
(b) Whether or not it deals with the community.
(c) Whether or not it is reciprocated.
(d) Whether or not it is done willingly.

3. Aristotle states, in Book VIII, that friendship is a kind of what?
(a) Pleasure.
(b) Virtue.
(c) Divinity.
(d) Vice.

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

5. Deliberation is, for Aristotle, principally about the things to be done by whom?
(a) The state.
(b) The community.
(c) Oneself.
(d) Others.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What determines the proper level of affection that one ought to give another, according to Aristotle?

3. With what is temperance principally concerned in the mind of Aristotle?

4. From what does being in bad shape come to be evident, according to Aristotle?

5. Aristotle states that as a child needs an instructor, so too do the desiring parts of the soul need what?

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