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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which power of the soul does Aristotle describe in VI.11 as being concerned with both the beginning and the end?
(a) Intellect.
(b) Practical judgment.
(c) Art.
(d) Wisdom.

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

3. When do people eat snacks the most in theaters, according to Aristotle in X.5?
(a) When the actors are good.
(b) When there is a lot of dialogue.
(c) When there is no dialogue.
(d) When the actors are bad.

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

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

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

7. How many things does Aristotle state there are in the soul that govern action and truth?
(a) One.
(b) Three.
(c) Two.
(d) Five.

8. 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) Bad things.
(b) Excesses.
(c) Good things.
(d) Fecundities.

9. When will virtuous upbringing and exercises no longer be painful in the theory of Aristotle?
(a) When they are enforced by law.
(b) When the world ends.
(c) When they are habitual.
(d) When there is a just ruler.

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

11. What quality does Aristotle state is involved in friendship in IX.6?
(a) A lack of jealousy.
(b) Like-mindedness.
(c) Severity of character.
(d) Altruisim.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Deliberation, as Aristotle states in VI.9, is a kind of what?

2. With what is the second part of the reasoning part of the soul concerned in the view of Aristotle?

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

4. Words that concern things such as feelings and actions are less believable than what, according to Aristotle?

5. What determines the proper level of affection that one ought to give another, according to Aristotle?

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