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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Congenial.
(c) Truthful.
(d) Ironic.

3. From Aristotle's perspective, against the yardstick of what do men generally compare their actions?
(a) Vice and virtue.
(b) Pleasure and pain.
(c) Truth and falsity.
(d) The archetypal man.

4. For what do praise and blame come about, according to Aristotle in III.1?
(a) Willing actions.
(b) Predispositions.
(c) Habits.
(d) Unwilling actions.

5. The irrational part of the soul is said by Aristotle to be how many fold?
(a) Three-fold.
(b) Four-fold.
(c) Manifold.
(d) Two-fold.

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

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

8. What does Aristotle claim is the most frightening thing in III.6?
(a) Illness.
(b) Old age.
(c) Death.
(d) Hell.

9. What word, by the description of Aristotle, well-describes the person who considers himself worthy of great things, or to be magnanimous, but is not?
(a) High-minded.
(b) Proud.
(c) Vulgar.
(d) Vain.

10. For the sake of what does Aristotle state the courageous person endures the fearful?
(a) Himself.
(b) The gods.
(c) The beautiful.
(d) His family.

11. With what two conditions is courage principally concerned, according to Aristotle?
(a) Love and hatred.
(b) Knowledge and ignorance.
(c) Cowardice and rage.
(d) Fear and confidence.

12. Which of the following most accurately describes the behavior of one of the vices Aristotle discusses in IV.6?
(a) Obdurate.
(b) Obsequious.
(c) Incoherent.
(d) Violent.

13. Which sort of political justice is most universal in Aristotle's view?
(a) Natural.
(b) Empirical.
(c) Conventional.
(d) Contractual.

14. By doing what, in the opinion of Aristotle, does man make himself a certain sort of person?
(a) Opining.
(b) Desiring.
(c) Wishing.
(d) Choosing.

15. By what means, according to Aristotle in V.5, does a community or a city stay together?
(a) Exchange.
(b) Slavery.
(c) Religion.
(d) Housebuilding.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How do lawmakers make citizens good in the opinion of Aristotle?

3. What two things does Aristotle define as contraries in II.8?

4. Which of the following sort of expenditures does Aristotle NOT consider to be honorably magnificent?

5. The attainment of serious moral stature is described by Aristotle in II.9 as being what?

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