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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From Aristotle's perspective, what sort of friendship do complaints and reproaches most frequently arise?
(a) Pleasure.
(b) Virtue.
(c) Familial.
(d) Utility.

2. With what is temperance principally concerned in the mind of Aristotle?
(a) Pleasures.
(b) Sexual deviance.
(c) Intellectual virtue.
(d) Pains.

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

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

5. Who is the worst person in the community in Aristotle's judgment?
(a) One who uses virtue in relation to himself and ignores others.
(b) One who uses vice in relation strictly to others.
(c) One who uses vice in relation to himself and others.
(d) One who uses vice in relation to himself alone.

Short Answer Questions

1. Aristotle states, in Book VIII, that friendship is a kind of what?

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

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

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

5. Who is the source of action, according to Aristotle, of one who acts from spiritedness?

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