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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the virtuous disposition most directly concerned, for Aristotle, with playfulness and humor?
(a) Wit.
(b) Charm.
(c) Pleasantness.
(d) Wisdom.

2. Which of the following does Aristotle not list as a theory of that by which happiness comes about?
(a) Biological nature.
(b) Training.
(c) Learning.
(d) Divine providence.

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

4. What causes a distortion to come about in most people, according to the opinion of Aristotle in III.4?
(a) The inactivity of the mind.
(b) The action of pain.
(c) The action of pleasure.
(d) The activity of the will.

5. To whom, or what, does Aristotle say the person who commits suicide is being unjust?
(a) The gods.
(b) Himself.
(c) The city.
(d) His teachers.

6. In addition to the life of pleasure and the life of politics, what is the third sort of life that Aristotle mentions?
(a) The life of rebellion.
(b) The life of servitude.
(c) The hermetical life.
(d) The contemplative life.

7. How do lawmakers make citizens good in the opinion of Aristotle?
(a) By informing their intellects.
(b) By threatening them with punishment.
(c) By giving them positive incentives.
(d) By habituating them.

8. With which of the following is politics imminently concerned, as described by Aristotle in I.3?
(a) The codification of law.
(b) Foreign affairs.
(c) The nature of justice.
(d) The nature of power.

9. How many types of virtue does Aristotle claim exist at the beginning of Book II?
(a) Three.
(b) Seven.
(c) One.
(d) Two.

10. Which of the following does Aristotle not list as a feeling that comes to be present in the soul?
(a) Fear.
(b) Knowledge.
(c) Joy.
(d) Longing.

11. A buffoon is described by Aristotle in IV.8 as someone who goes to extremes in order to make someone else do what?
(a) Laugh.
(b) Abjure the gods.
(c) Steal.
(d) Cry.

12. Which alone among the virtues seems, for Aristotle, to be someone else's good?
(a) Temperance.
(b) Magnanimity.
(c) Justice.
(d) Courage.

13. Which word adequately indicates the character of the man whose vice is in opposition to that of the braggart, according to Aristotle's description?
(a) Lecherous.
(b) Ironic.
(c) Truthful.
(d) Congenial.

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

15. What extreme is most comparable to the virtue of courage in the opinion of Aristotle?
(a) Rashness.
(b) Cowardice.
(c) Indignation.
(d) Confidence.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Aristotle states that the good of one person is also, to a different degree, the good of what according to I.2?

3. What does Aristotle claim is the most frightening thing in III.6?

4. At what does every action seem to aim, according to Aristotle?

5. In how many ways are things called courage according to Aristotle in Book Three?

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