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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By their intelligent deliberations, concerning what are those who have practical judgment distinguished from others, according to Aristotle's philosophical inquiry?
(a) Making money.
(b) Acquiring power.
(c) Living well.
(d) Avoiding problems.

2. 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) Marriage.
(b) Parenting.
(c) Friendship.
(d) Mentorship.

3. Aristotle states, in Book VIII, that friendship is a kind of what?
(a) Divinity.
(b) Vice.
(c) Virtue.
(d) Pleasure.

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

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

6. What does Aristotle, in VIII.5, say causes forgetfulness of friendship?
(a) Betrayal.
(b) Absence.
(c) Lust.
(d) Old age.

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

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

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

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

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

12. Concerning what do Aristotle and Socrates have a disagreement regarding the things that must be avoided that have to do with one's character?
(a) Pride.
(b) Vice.
(c) Incontinence.
(d) Animality.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many powers of the soul does Aristotle claim disclose truth by discursive reasoning?

2. In what sort of life is self-sufficiency most present in the view of Aristotle?

3. What fact does Aristotle point to in support of the hypothesis that living itself is a good?

4. To whose undemonstrated statements and opinions ought people pay attention, according to Aristotle?

5. To whom does man look concerning things good and bad, as stated by Aristotle in VII.11?

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