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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In exchange for what is it perhaps enough, according to IX.1, to give what one can in return?
(a) Health.
(b) Knowledge of the gods.
(c) Mathematical learning.
(d) Philosophy.

2. How many senses of the word "good" does Aristotle discuss in VII.12?
(a) Eight.
(b) Seven.
(c) Two.
(d) Six.

3. In what sort of friendship are there no complaints, according to the view of Aristotle?
(a) Utility.
(b) Pleasure.
(c) Virtue.
(d) Familial.

4. By what is the mean determined, according to Aristotle's analysis in the beginning of Book VI?
(a) Personal choice.
(b) Law.
(c) Right reason.
(d) Fate.

5. Amongst what age group does Aristotle report observing friendships forming less frequently?
(a) The elderly.
(b) The middle-aged.
(c) Children.
(d) The youth.

6. From Aristotle's perspective, what sort of friendship do complaints and reproaches most frequently arise?
(a) Virtue.
(b) Familial.
(c) Pleasure.
(d) Utility.

7. In X.1, Aristotle says that people educate the young by what two means?
(a) Pleasure and pain.
(b) Philosophy ad rhetoric.
(c) Truth and justice.
(d) Friendship and love.

8. How many kinds of things does Aristotle say there are that must be avoided, having to do with one's character?
(a) Three.
(b) Twelve.
(c) Five.
(d) A thousand.

9. What does Aristotle state is akin to friendship in the beginning of IX.5?
(a) Love.
(b) Sound reason.
(c) Familial relationships.
(d) Goodwill.

10. What does Aristotle claim the lover of self takes for himself?
(a) The things that he finds most beautiful.
(b) The things that belong to others.
(c) The things that belong to himself.
(d) The things that he finds most pleasurable.

11. With the beginnings of what consideration does Aristotle end the Ethics?
(a) Metaphysics.
(b) The human soul.
(c) Virtuous men.
(d) Political states.

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

13. Words that concern things such as feelings and actions are less believable than what, according to Aristotle?
(a) Words concerning judgments.
(b) Actions themselves.
(c) Words concerning being.
(d) Feelings themselves.

14. From which of the following does Aristotle say the activities of thinking differ in kind?
(a) Virtues.
(b) Pains.
(c) Perceiving.
(d) Labors.

15. Of what two elements does Aristotle determine that wisdom is composed?
(a) Practical judgment and knowledge.
(b) Intellect and practical judgment.
(c) Art and intellect.
(d) Knowledge and intellect.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the powers of the soul that Aristotle claims is used to disclose truth is directed at the sources of truth?

2. What is the immediate source of action, according to Aristotle in VI.2?

3. What virtue does Aristotle state is concerned with the same things, and is present in the same things, as friendship?

4. What person does Aristotle claim most notably feels love just in knowing a person, and not in receiving love returned?

5. 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?

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