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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Art, in the opinion of Aristotle, is concerned with what, according to VI.4?
(a) Making.
(b) Action.
(c) Chance.
(d) Fate.

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

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

5. What virtue does Aristotle state is concerned with the same things, and is present in the same things, as friendship?
(a) Temperance.
(b) Magnanimity.
(c) Fortitude.
(d) Justice.

6. How many powers of the soul does Aristotle claim disclose truth by discursive reasoning?
(a) Five.
(b) Two.
(c) Four.
(d) Nine.

7. Who, in the view of Aristotle, is incapable of having the sort of friendship described in IX.4?
(a) A noble person.
(b) A superior person.
(c) A base person.
(d) A lustful person.

8. Whom does Aristotle reference as taking in payment whatever his student desired to pay for the knowledge he would learn?
(a) Anaximenes.
(b) Plato.
(c) Empedocles.
(d) Protagoras.

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

10. With what sort of artists does Aristotle draw a comparison concerning the incontinent?
(a) Singers.
(b) Actors.
(c) Sculptors.
(d) Painters.

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

12. In what sort of life is self-sufficiency most present in the view of Aristotle?
(a) The contemplative life.
(b) The mathematical life.
(c) The morally virtuous life.
(d) The laborious life.

13. As Aristotle says in X.3, according to some people, if pleasure is not classed among qualities, it is also not classed among what?
(a) Good things.
(b) Bad things.
(c) Excesses.
(d) Fecundities.

14. With what sort of friendship is VIII.14 concerned?
(a) Familial friendships.
(b) Unequal friendships.
(c) Virtuous friendships.
(d) Equal friendships.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. By their intelligent deliberations, concerning what are those who have practical judgment distinguished from others, according to Aristotle's philosophical inquiry?

2. What two forces does Aristotle claim determine the strength of an obligation to another person, in a situation where there is a conflict, according to IX.2?

3. Aristotle states in X.4 that a change of place is what?

4. From Aristotle's perspective, what sort of friendship do complaints and reproaches most frequently arise?

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

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