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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In I.12, Aristotle states that praise belongs properly to what?
(a) Virtue.
(b) Humanity.
(c) Effort.
(d) Divinity.

2. 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 constitutes being in good shape.
(d) What symptoms it displays.

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

4. In how many ways does Aristotle speak of the mean in II.6?
(a) One.
(b) Four.
(c) Two.
(d) Three.

5. What is the virtuous disposition most directly concerned, for Aristotle, with playfulness and humor?
(a) Charm.
(b) Wisdom.
(c) Wit.
(d) Pleasantness.

6. With what is temperance principally concerned in the mind of Aristotle?
(a) Pains.
(b) Pleasures.
(c) Sexual deviance.
(d) Intellectual virtue.

7. 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) Coercion.
(c) Deliberation.
(d) Passion.

8. How many types of virtue does Aristotle claim exist at the beginning of Book II?
(a) Seven.
(b) Three.
(c) One.
(d) Two.

9. Which of the following does Aristotle explicitly claim is better than acting unjustly in V.11?
(a) Being treated justly.
(b) Justly treating others.
(c) Avoiding all injustice.
(d) Suffering injustice.

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

11. For Aristotle, the good of the human person is the activity of the soul in accordance with what?
(a) The free exercise of the will.
(b) The most complete virtue.
(c) Radical autonomy.
(d) The acquisition of power.

12. What sort of men, in Aristotle's observations, are most confident in the various situations of war?
(a) The reckless.
(b) The experienced.
(c) The naturally courageous.
(d) The ignorant.

13. In the opinion of Aristotle, what is the governing and most masterful art under which all others fall, according to I.2?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Ethics.
(c) Politics.
(d) Philosophy.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Aristotle claim is the most frightening thing in III.6?

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

3. How many sorts of political justice are there by the count of Aristotle?

4. In what do most people take refuge, according to the theory proposed by Aristotle, rather than perform virtuous acts?

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

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