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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Near the end of X.3, Aristotle says that no one would choose to live their lives having the thinking of what sort of person?
(a) A woman.
(b) A moron.
(c) A child.
(d) An animal.

2. Aristotle states that food is more pleasant than gold to what?
(a) A child.
(b) A philosopher.
(c) A wealthy man.
(d) A donkey.

3. What is a fitting word for the capacity that Aristotle describes as allowing people to easily achieve one's goal or object?
(a) Sincerity.
(b) Coherence.
(c) Cleverness.
(d) Alacrity.

4. What sort of rule is opposite to that of a just monarch, according to the observations of Aristotle?
(a) Republicanism.
(b) Tyranny.
(c) Democracy.
(d) Aristocracy.

5. What does Aristotle say one must do in addition to knowing virtue?
(a) Perform virtue.
(b) Contemplate virtue.
(c) Instruct others in virtue.
(d) Engage in discourse concerning virtue.

6. Aristotle says in IX.10 that too many friendships of what type are obstacles to living beautifully?
(a) Utility.
(b) Pleasure.
(c) All types.
(d) Virtue.

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

8. What do the natural sorts of active conditions of the human person need, by Aristotle's observations, in order to be used for the good?
(a) Fear.
(b) Governance.
(c) Camaraderie.
(d) Moral virtue.

9. Deliberation, as Aristotle states in VI.9, is a kind of what?
(a) Inquiry.
(b) Choice.
(c) Decision.
(d) Act.

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

11. Aristotle compares the relationship between spiritedness and reason to the relationship between what?
(a) A hasty servant and his master.
(b) Stone and a house-builder.
(c) A fiesty horse and a poor rider.
(d) A sick patient and a doctor.

12. Which power of the soul does Aristotle describe in VI.11 as being concerned with both the beginning and the end?
(a) Art.
(b) Intellect.
(c) Practical judgment.
(d) Wisdom.

13. Whom does Aristotle reference as taking in payment whatever his student desired to pay for the knowledge he would learn?
(a) Anaximenes.
(b) Empedocles.
(c) Plato.
(d) Protagoras.

14. 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.

15. In what way does Aristotle claim the incontinent person is unlike the vicious?
(a) The latter acts through choice.
(b) The former acts through choice.
(c) The latter is ignorant.
(d) The former is ignorant.

Short Answer Questions

1. Aristotle states in X.4 that a change of place is what?

2. What does Aristotle discuss as being an impediment to happiness, despite many having an opinion to the contrary, in VII.13?

3. With what virtue does Aristotle credit Eudoxus in X.2?

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

5. Which two thinkers does Aristotle reference in X.8 concerning the nature of those who are happy?

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