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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Words that concern things such as feelings and actions are less believable than what, according to Aristotle?
(a) Feelings themselves.
(b) Words concerning being.
(c) Words concerning judgments.
(d) Actions themselves.

2. With what state of man's character is VII.5 concerned?
(a) Incontinence.
(b) Vice.
(c) Divinity.
(d) Animality.

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

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

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

6. What person does Aristotle claim most notably feels love just in knowing a person, and not in receiving love returned?
(a) A just ruler.
(b) A spouse.
(c) A father.
(d) A mother.

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

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

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

10. To whom does man look concerning things good and bad, as stated by Aristotle in VII.11?
(a) The philosopher.
(b) The rhetorician.
(c) The politician.
(d) The lawyer.

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. 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 involve no pains.
(d) Those that are pleasant to the virtuous.

13. With what sort of friendship is VIII.12 concerned?
(a) Friendship in a family.
(b) Friendship among women.
(c) Friendship between inferiors and superiors.
(d) Friendship with foreigners.

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

15. Among what sort of people does Aristotle regard mutual and equal friendships complete in all respects?
(a) Free people.
(b) Elderly people.
(c) Virtuous people.
(d) Alike people.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In the loving of what does Aristotle state there is no reciprocity, in VIII.2?

4. With the beginnings of what consideration does Aristotle end the Ethics?

5. What is the impasse Aristotle confronts in IX.8?

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