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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With what sort of friendship is VIII.12 concerned?
(a) Friendship among women.
(b) Friendship in a family.
(c) Friendship with foreigners.
(d) Friendship between inferiors and superiors.

2. Which alone among the virtues seems, for Aristotle, to be someone else's good?
(a) Justice.
(b) Temperance.
(c) Courage.
(d) Magnanimity.

3. What did the Pythagoreans say is simply just?
(a) Reciprocity.
(b) Distribution.
(c) Equity.
(d) Virtue.

4. In addition to vices of the soul, what other negative condition does Aristotle say comes about willingly in some people, in III.5?
(a) Public indecency.
(b) Insufficiency of the intellect.
(c) Corruptions of the body.
(d) Corruptions of the community.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What, according to Aristotle in the beginning of V.6, makes an act unjust without necessarily making the person who commits it unjust?

2. What virtue does Aristotle state is concerned with the same things, and is present in the same things, as friendship?

3. In what relationship, according to Aristotle, does friendship naturally appear?

4. For the sake of what does Aristotle state the courageous person endures the fearful?

5. With what is V.10 concerned?

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