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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. About what, concerning the virtues, might one raise a problem, as Aristotle states in VI.12?
(a) Their societal fecundity.
(b) Their usefulness.
(c) Their complementary nature.
(d) Their veracity.

3. What principally occupies the topic of discussion in X.6?
(a) Idleness.
(b) Work.
(c) Recreation.
(d) Thinking.

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

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) Health.
(c) Mathematical learning.
(d) Philosophy.

6. What fact does Aristotle point to in support of the hypothesis that living itself is a good?
(a) That without life there can be no other goods.
(b) That the best things are living.
(c) That good men desire good things.
(d) That all men desire to live.

7. In what city alone does Aristotle say that the lawgiver has taken care for upbringing and virtuous exercises?
(a) Sparta.
(b) Delphi.
(c) Athens.
(d) Crete.

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

9. Which of the powers of the soul that Aristotle claims is used to disclose truth is directed at the sources of truth?
(a) Knowledge.
(b) Intellect.
(c) Practical judgment.
(d) Wisdom.

10. 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.

11. Friendship with whom is discussed in IX.4?
(a) Oneself.
(b) One's father.
(c) One's lover.
(d) One's mentor.

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

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

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

15. In the loving of what does Aristotle state there is no reciprocity, in VIII.2?
(a) Inanimate things.
(b) Spouses.
(c) Children.
(d) Animals.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Aristotle state is akin to friendship in the beginning of IX.5?

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

3. Aristotle states, in Book VIII, that friendship is a kind of what?

4. Without what power of the soul does Aristotle state there cannot be a governing part of the soul?

5. In what relationship, according to Aristotle, does friendship naturally appear?

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