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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the worst person in the community in Aristotle's judgment?
(a) One who uses vice in relation strictly to others.
(b) One who uses virtue in relation to himself and ignores others.
(c) One who uses vice in relation to himself alone.
(d) One who uses vice in relation to himself and others.

2. The equitable distribution of justice is a certain kind of what, according to Aristotle?
(a) Exactness of arithmetic.
(b) Excess.
(c) Proportion.
(d) Deficiency.

3. Which of the following is NOT characteristic of Aristotle's magnanimous man?
(a) Slowness of movement.
(b) Anxiety.
(c) A deep voice.
(d) Lack of wonderment.

4. Aristotle states that as a child needs an instructor, so too do the desiring parts of the soul need what?
(a) Rest.
(b) Freedom.
(c) A body.
(d) Reason.

5. From what does being in bad shape come to be evident, according to Aristotle?
(a) How the person acts.
(b) What ends it produces.
(c) What symptoms it displays.
(d) What constitutes being in good shape.

6. About what good and aim of politics do people commonly dispute, according to Aristotle?
(a) Justice.
(b) Power.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Wealth.

7. 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.

8. What is demonstrated, in Aristotle's perspective, by the person who calmly bears misfortunes and sufferings?
(a) Something hideous.
(b) Something futile.
(c) Something beautiful.
(d) Something unpredictable.

9. What, in the observations of Aristotle, becomes of a man who is given the power to rule and gives himself more of what is good in itself?
(a) He becomes a tyrant.
(b) He becomes greedy.
(c) He is soon killed.
(d) He is punished by law.

10. 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 servitude.
(b) The life of rebellion.
(c) The hermetical life.
(d) The contemplative life.

11. Aristotle states that one suffers injustice willingly in what situation?
(a) In situations of poverty.
(b) In situations of sacrifice.
(c) In no situation.
(d) In situations of judgment.

12. Concerning generosity, Aristotle says what concerning not taking something offered and giving something away?
(a) That neither is difficult.
(b) That they are equally difficult.
(c) That not taking something offered is harder.
(d) That giving something away is harder.

13. Aristotle claims that a man is inspired to take more than his due out of which vice?
(a) Injustice.
(b) Intemperance.
(c) Lechery.
(d) Greed.

14. At what does every action seem to aim, according to Aristotle?
(a) Another action.
(b) Some profit.
(c) Some target.
(d) Some good.

15. In what do most people take refuge, according to the theory proposed by Aristotle, rather than perform virtuous acts?
(a) Vice.
(b) Pleasure.
(c) Talk.
(d) Philosophy.

Short Answer Questions

1. The irrational part of the soul is said by Aristotle to be how many fold?

2. With what is the virtue that Aristotle describes in IV.4 concerned?

3. Living in accordance with virtue can be said to be what, according to Aristotle?

4. About what does man deliberate, according to Aristotle in III.3?

5. What did the Pythagoreans say is simply just?

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