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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From what does being in bad shape come to be evident, according to Aristotle?
(a) What constitutes being in good shape.
(b) What ends it produces.
(c) How the person acts.
(d) What symptoms it displays.

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

3. Which sort of political justice is most universal in Aristotle's view?
(a) Contractual.
(b) Conventional.
(c) Natural.
(d) Empirical.

4. Aristotle states that as a child needs an instructor, so too do the desiring parts of the soul need what?
(a) Rest.
(b) Reason.
(c) A body.
(d) Freedom.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Aristotle claim is the most frightening thing in III.6?

2. What is the literal prize for boxers, according to Aristotle in III.9?

3. Amongst what age group does Aristotle report observing friendships forming less frequently?

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

5. With what sort of friendship is VIII.14 concerned?

(see the answer key)

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