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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Aristotle notes that each political constitution involves friendship to the same degree that it involves what?
(a) Justice.
(b) Trust.
(c) Truth.
(d) Benevolence.

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

3. What sort of people does Aristotle state seldom turn up in positions of power?
(a) The incontinent.
(b) The vicious.
(c) The friendless.
(d) The virtuous.

4. Which of the following does Aristotle explicitly claim is better than acting unjustly in V.11?
(a) Suffering injustice.
(b) Being treated justly.
(c) Avoiding all injustice.
(d) Justly treating others.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Aristotle, in VIII.5, say causes forgetfulness of friendship?

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

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

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