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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What two things does Aristotle define as contraries in II.8?
(a) Vice and virtue.
(b) The excess and deficiency.
(c) The median and the mean.
(d) The extremes and the mean.

3. According to the Pythagoreans, the good belongs to what?
(a) The limited.
(b) The complicated.
(c) The unlimited.
(d) The simple.

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

5. Aristotle says that the magnanimous man cares more for what than for people's opinions?
(a) Fame.
(b) Truth.
(c) Respect.
(d) Money.

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

7. With what is the virtue of generosity concerned, according to Aristotle?
(a) Time.
(b) Possessions.
(c) Money.
(d) Fame.

8. The attainment of serious moral stature is described by Aristotle in II.9 as being what?
(a) Hard work.
(b) Natural.
(c) Impractical.
(d) Almost impossible.

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

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

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

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

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

14. How many types of justice are discussed in V.4?
(a) Two.
(b) Three.
(c) Six.
(d) One.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the literal prize for boxers, according to Aristotle in III.9?

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

3. Which word adequately indicates the character of the man whose vice is in opposition to that of the braggart, according to Aristotle's description?

4. Which of the following is NOT characteristic of Aristotle's magnanimous man?

5. Aristotle states that as a child needs an instructor, so too do the desiring parts of the soul need what?

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