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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In contrast to wishing, which is for an end, for what is choosing in Aristotle's philosophical view?
(a) Things related to the end.
(b) Things related to others.
(c) Things related to the self.
(d) Things related to the means.

2. With what is V.10 concerned?
(a) The equitable.
(b) The oligarchy.
(c) The distributable.
(d) The aristocracy.

3. How does Aristotle say the lawmakers ought to treat people who act beautifully?
(a) With contempt.
(b) With honor.
(c) With lavish praise.
(d) With caution.

4. Who is the worst person in the community in Aristotle's judgment?
(a) One who uses vice in relation to himself alone.
(b) One who uses vice in relation strictly to others.
(c) One who uses vice in relation to himself and others.
(d) One who uses virtue in relation to himself and ignores others.

5. Which word adequately indicates the character of the man whose vice is in opposition to that of the braggart, according to Aristotle's description?
(a) Truthful.
(b) Congenial.
(c) Ironic.
(d) Lecherous.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sort of men, in Aristotle's observations, are most confident in the various situations of war?

2. With what virtue is III.10 concerned?

3. With what two conditions is courage principally concerned, according to Aristotle?

4. Who is the source of action, according to Aristotle, of one who acts from spiritedness?

5. In how many ways are things called courage according to Aristotle in Book Three?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the significance of the quasi-virtues mentioned by Aristotle in the last part of II.7?

2. Explain Aristotle's distinction between the good and the apparent good, and those who pursue each, as given in III.4.

3. What is the content of the suggestion of Aristotle regarding overcompensation and the acquisition of personal virtue?

4. What is the proper distinction Aristotle makes between things that are good in themselves and things that are good only in a derivative sense? Illustrate this distinction by means of an example.

5. According to Aristotle, in what way is justice reciprocal, and why?

6. What sort of ruler becomes a tyrant, according to Aristotle's observations?

7. With what virtuous dispositions are Book IV, Chapters 6-9 concerned?

8. In what way does Aristotle claim gentleness (or mildness) is related to the virtues concerned with honor and magnanimity?

9. Why does Aristotle say that the things deliberated about are not ends?

10. What characterizes Aristotle's distinction between "willing" and "choice"?

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