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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is a suitable category, in Aristotle's view, in which to place the feeling of shame?
(a) Feelings.
(b) Conditional values.
(c) Vices.
(d) Virtues.

4. Which of the following aptly describes virtues and vices in a manner consistent with Aristotle's description?
(a) Active conditions.
(b) Intellectual states.
(c) Predispositions.
(d) Feelings.

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

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

7. Which of the following sort of expenditures does Aristotle NOT consider to be honorably magnificent?
(a) Devotion to the gods.
(b) Giving a splendid civic feast.
(c) Hosting a private wedding.
(d) Fitting a warship.

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

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. What characterizes the mean condition between the two extremes discussed in IV.7?
(a) Modesty.
(b) Nobility.
(c) Cleverness.
(d) Truthfulness.

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

12. 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.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does Aristotle not list as a feeling that comes to be present in the soul?

2. What did the Pythagoreans say is simply just?

3. In Aristotle's view, what virtue necessarily accompanies or is within the virtue of magnificence?

4. In how many ways does Aristotle speak of good things in I.6?

5. In the opinion of Aristotle, what is the governing and most masterful art under which all others fall, according to I.2?

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