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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.12 concerned?
(a) Friendship in a family.
(b) Friendship with foreigners.
(c) Friendship among women.
(d) Friendship between inferiors and superiors.

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

3. What is the impasse Aristotle confronts in IX.8?
(a) Whether one should love his parents or his wife the most.
(b) Whether one ought to not love himself at all.
(c) Whether one should love himself or another the most.
(d) Whether one ought to love himself like he loves others.

4. By their intelligent deliberations, concerning what are those who have practical judgment distinguished from others, according to Aristotle's philosophical inquiry?
(a) Making money.
(b) Avoiding problems.
(c) Living well.
(d) Acquiring power.

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

6. Aristotle notes that each political constitution involves friendship to the same degree that it involves what?
(a) Justice.
(b) Trust.
(c) Truth.
(d) Benevolence.

7. 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) Homer.
(c) Pythagoras.
(d) Socrates.

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

9. Friendship with whom is discussed in IX.4?
(a) Oneself.
(b) One's mentor.
(c) One's lover.
(d) One's father.

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

11. What determines the proper level of affection that one ought to give another, according to Aristotle?
(a) Love.
(b) Equality.
(c) Temperance.
(d) Proportion.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Actions that pertain to what two things are considered by Aristotle to be the most beautiful and magnificent?

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

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

5. Which of the following is NOT one of the things that must be avoided, having to do with one's character, according to Aristotle's claims in the beginning of VII.1?

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