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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sort of relationship does Aristotle claim is impossible for people who do not have the quality mentioned at the beginning of IX.5?
(a) Parenting.
(b) Mentorship.
(c) Marriage.
(d) Friendship.

2. Which of the following intellectual virtues does Aristotle say the incontinent person cannot have, at the beginning of VII.10?
(a) Intellect.
(b) Art.
(c) Knowledge.
(d) Practical judgment.

3. In VIII.12, Aristotle states that every sort of friendship is in what?
(a) A marriage.
(b) A family.
(c) A government.
(d) A community.

4. With what power of the soul does Aristotle state that astuteness shares its concern?
(a) Wisdom.
(b) Practical judgment.
(c) Intellect.
(d) Knowledge.

5. With what sort of friendship is VIII.14 concerned?
(a) Equal friendships.
(b) Unequal friendships.
(c) Virtuous friendships.
(d) Familial friendships.

6. What sort of pleasures are said by Aristotle to not have an excess?
(a) Those that are pleasant to the virtuous.
(b) Those that are pleasureful incidentally.
(c) Those that involve no pains.
(d) Those whose contraries are painful.

7. What does Aristotle discuss as being an impediment to happiness, despite many having an opinion to the contrary, in VII.13?
(a) Wisdom.
(b) Pain itself.
(c) Pleasure itself.
(d) Good fortune.

8. In what status of life is having good friends considered beautiful by Aristotle in IX.11?
(a) Good fortune.
(b) Unusual circumstances.
(c) Diurnal proceedings.
(d) Bad fortune.

9. Which two thinkers does Aristotle reference in X.8 concerning the nature of those who are happy?
(a) Solon and Anaxagoras.
(b) Aeschylus and Parmenides.
(c) Plato and Empedocles.
(d) Socrates and Anaximander.

10. With what state of man's character is VII.5 concerned?
(a) Animality.
(b) Vice.
(c) Divinity.
(d) Incontinence.

11. Which of the following is NOT one of the things that must be avoided, having to do with one's character, according to Aristotle's claims in the beginning of VII.1?
(a) Animality.
(b) Incontinence.
(c) Pride.
(d) Vice.

12. While in the throes of true friendship, Aristotle states at the end of Book IX that one has the same relationship with a friend as he does with whom?
(a) Himself.
(b) His lover.
(c) His father.
(d) His god.

13. Who, in the view of Aristotle, is incapable of having the sort of friendship described in IX.4?
(a) A lustful person.
(b) A superior person.
(c) A base person.
(d) A noble person.

14. What sort of person is opposite, in the opinion of Aristotle, the person who is soft?
(a) The virtuous person.
(b) The continent person.
(c) The enduring person.
(d) The self-restrained person.

15. In what period of life does Aristotle state that the friendship of utility most frequently appears?
(a) Middle age.
(b) Youth.
(c) One's prime.
(d) Old age.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Aristotle, by what means do particulars, with which practical judgment is concerned, become known?

2. By what is the mean determined, according to Aristotle's analysis in the beginning of Book VI?

3. Which kind of incontinence is least blameless, according to Aristotle's claims in VII.6?

4. With what sort of artists does Aristotle draw a comparison concerning the incontinent?

5. What two forces does Aristotle claim determine the strength of an obligation to another person, in a situation where there is a conflict, according to IX.2?

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