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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. With what is the second part of the reasoning part of the soul concerned in the view of Aristotle?
(a) Things that can be other than they are.
(b) Things that can never be.
(c) Things that might be but are not at all.
(d) Things that cannot be other than they are.

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

4. In what status of life is having good friends considered beautiful by Aristotle in IX.11?
(a) Unusual circumstances.
(b) Diurnal proceedings.
(c) Good fortune.
(d) Bad fortune.

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

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

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

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

9. What sort of pleasures are said by Aristotle to not have an excess?
(a) Those whose contraries are painful.
(b) Those that involve no pains.
(c) Those that are pleasureful incidentally.
(d) Those that are pleasant to the virtuous.

10. About what, concerning the virtues, might one raise a problem, as Aristotle states in VI.12?
(a) Their societal fecundity.
(b) Their veracity.
(c) Their usefulness.
(d) Their complementary nature.

11. For what does Aristotle blame people when it comes to money, honor, victory, and gain?
(a) Feigning interest in their acquisition.
(b) Condemning those who seek them.
(c) Desiring them in any way.
(d) Desiring them to excess.

12. What does Aristotle say one must do in addition to knowing virtue?
(a) Engage in discourse concerning virtue.
(b) Contemplate virtue.
(c) Instruct others in virtue.
(d) Perform virtue.

13. For what sort of living environment does Aristotle say the human being is meant in IX.9?
(a) Suburban.
(b) Rural.
(c) Urban.
(d) Nomadic.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what relationship, according to Aristotle, does friendship naturally appear?

2. What virtue does Aristotle state is concerned with the same things, and is present in the same things, as friendship?

3. According to Aristotle, by what means do particulars, with which practical judgment is concerned, become known?

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

5. How many things does Aristotle state there are in the soul that govern action and truth?

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