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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Aristotle states, in Book VIII, that friendship is a kind of what?
(a) Vice.
(b) Pleasure.
(c) Virtue.
(d) Divinity.

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

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

4. Who is the source of action, according to Aristotle, of one who acts from spiritedness?
(a) The gods.
(b) The actor himself.
(c) The one who angers the actor.
(d) Nature.

5. What determines, according to Aristotle's arguments in V.8, the justice or injustice of one's actions?
(a) Whether or not it is done willingly.
(b) Whether or not it deals with the community.
(c) Whether or not it deals with the whole person.
(d) Whether or not it is reciprocated.

Short Answer Questions

1. In VIII.12, Aristotle states that every sort of friendship is in what?

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

3. By what means, according to Aristotle in V.5, does a community or a city stay together?

4. Which of the following does Aristotle explicitly claim is better than acting unjustly in V.11?

5. What causes a distortion to come about in most people, according to the opinion of Aristotle in III.4?

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