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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 is V.10 concerned?
(a) The aristocracy.
(b) The distributable.
(c) The oligarchy.
(d) The equitable.

2. What sort of rule is opposite to that of a just monarch, according to the observations of Aristotle?
(a) Tyranny.
(b) Aristocracy.
(c) Republicanism.
(d) Democracy.

3. In VIII.12, Aristotle states that every sort of friendship is in what?
(a) A government.
(b) A family.
(c) A community.
(d) A marriage.

4. In the loving of what does Aristotle state there is no reciprocity, in VIII.2?
(a) Children.
(b) Spouses.
(c) Animals.
(d) Inanimate things.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. With what virtue is III.10 concerned?

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

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

4. What person does Aristotle claim most notably feels love just in knowing a person, and not in receiving love returned?

5. Where is the source of a willing act located, according to Aristotle?

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