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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Amongst what age group does Aristotle report observing friendships forming less frequently?
(a) The elderly.
(b) Children.
(c) The youth.
(d) The middle-aged.

2. Whom does Aristotle cite as saying that those who claim that favor-doers are more loving than favor-receivers say so from a debased point of view?
(a) Epicharmus.
(b) Pythagoras.
(c) Socrates.
(d) Homer.

3. 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.

4. Without what power of the soul does Aristotle state there cannot be a governing part of the soul?
(a) Practical judgment.
(b) Wisdom.
(c) Art.
(d) Intellect.

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

6. How many kinds of things does Aristotle say there are that must be avoided, having to do with one's character?
(a) Five.
(b) A thousand.
(c) Three.
(d) Twelve.

7. Aristotle states that food is more pleasant than gold to what?
(a) A wealthy man.
(b) A child.
(c) A donkey.
(d) A philosopher.

8. 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) Intellect.
(d) Practical judgment.

9. While in the throes of true friendship, Aristotle states at the end of Book IX that one has the same relationship with a friend as he does with whom?
(a) His god.
(b) Himself.
(c) His lover.
(d) His father.

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

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

12. Which two thinkers does Aristotle reference in X.8 concerning the nature of those who are happy?
(a) Aeschylus and Parmenides.
(b) Socrates and Anaximander.
(c) Plato and Empedocles.
(d) Solon and Anaxagoras.

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

14. Actions that pertain to what two things are considered by Aristotle to be the most beautiful and magnificent?
(a) War and politics.
(b) Rhetoric and reputation.
(c) Truth and discourse.
(d) Fame and wealth.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what way does Aristotle claim the incontinent person is unlike the vicious?

2. Which virtue does Aristotle explicitly claim to be concerned with regarding the sorts of pleasures that concern the incontinent man, in VII.4?

3. Aristotle compares the relationship between spiritedness and reason to the relationship between what?

4. What sort of person is opposite, in the opinion of Aristotle, the person who is soft?

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

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