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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Aristotle, the highest good must be something that is what?
(a) Easily obtained.
(b) Complete.
(c) Difficult to obtain.
(d) Incomplete.

2. Living in accordance with virtue can be said to be what, according to Aristotle?
(a) Pleasant in itself.
(b) Always difficult.
(c) Remarkably easy.
(d) Almost impossible.

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

4. How does Aristotle say the lawmakers ought to treat people who act beautifully?
(a) With caution.
(b) With honor.
(c) With lavish praise.
(d) With contempt.

5. According to Aristotle, what is the mean condition between the vices of wastefulness and stinginess?
(a) Prudence.
(b) Temperance.
(c) Fortitude.
(d) Generosity.

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. What did the Pythagoreans say is simply just?
(a) Reciprocity.
(b) Distribution.
(c) Equity.
(d) Virtue.

13. What is the difficulty Aristotle cites concerning the praise and blame of the moral quality of the actions of others?
(a) Judging in relation to the mean.
(b) Distance from prejudice.
(c) Restraint of the masses.
(d) Extrapolation of the truth.

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

15. In addition to vices of the soul, what other negative condition does Aristotle say comes about willingly in some people, in III.5?
(a) Corruptions of the community.
(b) Corruptions of the body.
(c) Insufficiency of the intellect.
(d) Public indecency.

Short Answer Questions

1. With which of the following is politics imminently concerned, as described by Aristotle in I.3?

2. What is the virtuous disposition most directly concerned, for Aristotle, with playfulness and humor?

3. What sort of person is he who brings food fit for a wedding to a small dinner, according to Aristotle?

4. What causes a distortion to come about in most people, according to the opinion of Aristotle in III.4?

5. A buffoon is described by Aristotle in IV.8 as someone who goes to extremes in order to make someone else do what?

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