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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Aristotle states in X.4 that a change of place is what?
(a) A motion from one "where" to another "where."
(b) A circuit from one "where" to the same "where."
(c) An illusion, for everything is change.
(d) An illusion, for there is no change of place.

2. When do people eat snacks the most in theaters, according to Aristotle in X.5?
(a) When the actors are bad.
(b) When the actors are good.
(c) When there is no dialogue.
(d) When there is a lot of dialogue.

3. Which virtue does Aristotle explicitly claim to be concerned with regarding the sorts of pleasures that concern the incontinent man, in VII.4?
(a) Fortitude.
(b) Temperance.
(c) Justice.
(d) Practical judgment.

4. In what relationship, according to Aristotle, does friendship naturally appear?
(a) Brother and sister.
(b) Husband and wife.
(c) Parent and child.
(d) Man and animal.

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

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

7. What question is presented in IX.9?
(a) Whether or not a happy person needs friends.
(b) Whether or not friends can be happy.
(c) Whether or not lovers can be friends.
(d) Whether or not happiness is essential to friendship.

8. To whose undemonstrated statements and opinions ought people pay attention, according to Aristotle?
(a) The wise and powerful.
(b) The experienced and elderly.
(c) The teachers of the youth.
(d) The quick-witted and youthful.

9. Whom does Aristotle cite as saying that those who claim that favor-doers are more loving than favor-receivers say so from a debased point of view?
(a) Homer.
(b) Pythagoras.
(c) Epicharmus.
(d) Socrates.

10. Which kind of incontinence is least blameless, according to Aristotle's claims in VII.6?
(a) That from scheming.
(b) That from desires.
(c) That from viciousness.
(d) That from spiritedness.

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

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

13. What sort of people does Aristotle state seldom turn up in positions of power?
(a) The friendless.
(b) The virtuous.
(c) The incontinent.
(d) The vicious.

14. 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) Marriage.
(c) Mentorship.
(d) Friendship.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following intellectual virtues does Aristotle say the incontinent person cannot have, at the beginning of VII.10?

2. 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?

3. With what is the second part of the reasoning part of the soul concerned in the view of Aristotle?

4. What does Aristotle say one must do in addition to knowing virtue?

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

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