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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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) Pride.
(b) Incontinence.
(c) Vice.
(d) Animality.

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

5. What two things does Aristotle state are linked together in the beginning of X.8?
(a) Practical judgment and moral virtue.
(b) Practical judgment and feelings.
(c) Moral virtue and art.
(d) Moral virtue and wisdom.

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

7. With what power of the soul does Aristotle state that astuteness shares its concern?
(a) Practical judgment.
(b) Knowledge.
(c) Wisdom.
(d) Intellect.

8. 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 child.
(b) A moron.
(c) A woman.
(d) An animal.

9. With what is IX.3 concerned?
(a) The corruption of friendships.
(b) The accepting of goods from friends.
(c) The distribution of goods to friends.
(d) The eternity of friendships.

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

11. What does the continent person have, by Aristotle's estimation, that the temperate person does not?
(a) Reason.
(b) Base desires.
(c) Ignorance.
(d) Knowledge.

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

13. 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) Camaraderie.
(b) Governance.
(c) Fear.
(d) Moral virtue.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Aristotle, in VIII.5, say causes forgetfulness of friendship?

3. Among what sort of people does Aristotle regard mutual and equal friendships complete in all respects?

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

5. In what status of life is having good friends considered beautiful by Aristotle in IX.11?

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