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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Amongst what age group does Aristotle report observing friendships forming less frequently?
(a) The youth.
(b) The elderly.
(c) Children.
(d) The middle-aged.

2. What two things does Aristotle define as contraries in II.8?
(a) Vice and virtue.
(b) The excess and deficiency.
(c) The extremes and the mean.
(d) The median and the mean.

3. What, according to Aristotle in the beginning of V.6, makes an act unjust without necessarily making the person who commits it unjust?
(a) Coercion.
(b) Deliberation.
(c) Choice.
(d) Passion.

4. How many sorts of political justice are there by the count of Aristotle?
(a) Two.
(b) Three.
(c) Six.
(d) Four.

5. To whom does man look concerning things good and bad, as stated by Aristotle in VII.11?
(a) The rhetorician.
(b) The lawyer.
(c) The philosopher.
(d) The politician.

Short Answer Questions

1. The equitable distribution of justice is a certain kind of what, according to Aristotle?

2. In what way does Aristotle claim the incontinent person is unlike the vicious?

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

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

5. Which sort of political justice is most universal in Aristotle's view?

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