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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the impasse Aristotle confronts in IX.8?
(a) Whether one should love his parents or his wife the most.
(b) Whether one ought to not love himself at all.
(c) Whether one should love himself or another the most.
(d) Whether one ought to love himself like he loves others.

3. What question is presented in IX.9?
(a) Whether or not a happy person needs friends.
(b) Whether or not happiness is essential to friendship.
(c) Whether or not friends can be happy.
(d) Whether or not lovers can be friends.

4. Whom does Aristotle cite as saying that those who claim that favor-doers are more loving than favor-receivers say so from a debased point of view?
(a) Epicharmus.
(b) Pythagoras.
(c) Homer.
(d) Socrates.

5. Who, in the view of Aristotle, is incapable of having the sort of friendship described in IX.4?
(a) A lustful person.
(b) A superior person.
(c) A base person.
(d) A noble person.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what is temperance principally concerned in the mind of Aristotle?

2. What determines, according to Aristotle's arguments in V.8, the justice or injustice of one's actions?

3. To whose undemonstrated statements and opinions ought people pay attention, according to Aristotle?

4. Who, in the opinion of Aristotle, is benefited by a stingy person?

5. Amongst what age group does Aristotle report observing friendships forming less frequently?

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