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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. What does Aristotle claim is the most frightening thing in III.6?
(a) Illness.
(b) Old age.
(c) Death.
(d) Hell.

3. What, in the observations of Aristotle, becomes of a man who is given the power to rule and gives himself more of what is good in itself?
(a) He is punished by law.
(b) He becomes a tyrant.
(c) He becomes greedy.
(d) He is soon killed.

4. Amongst what age group does Aristotle report observing friendships forming less frequently?
(a) The middle-aged.
(b) The youth.
(c) Children.
(d) The elderly.

5. For the sake of what does Aristotle state the courageous person endures the fearful?
(a) The beautiful.
(b) The gods.
(c) Himself.
(d) His family.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many sorts of political justice are there by the count of Aristotle?

2. What sort of men, in Aristotle's observations, are most confident in the various situations of war?

3. What did the Pythagoreans say is simply just?

4. By doing what, in the opinion of Aristotle, does man make himself a certain sort of person?

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

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