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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. What is a suitable category, in Aristotle's view, in which to place the feeling of shame?
(a) Virtues.
(b) Vices.
(c) Conditional values.
(d) Feelings.

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

3. Deliberation is, for Aristotle, principally about the things to be done by whom?
(a) Others.
(b) The community.
(c) The state.
(d) Oneself.

4. Which of the following sort of expenditures does Aristotle NOT consider to be honorably magnificent?
(a) Fitting a warship.
(b) Devotion to the gods.
(c) Giving a splendid civic feast.
(d) Hosting a private wedding.

5. How many sorts of political justice are there by the count of Aristotle?
(a) Four.
(b) Two.
(c) Six.
(d) Three.

Short Answer Questions

1. What characterizes the mean condition between the two extremes discussed in IV.7?

2. What vice is, according to Aristotle, in deficiency of the virtue of courage?

3. With which of the following is politics imminently concerned, as described by Aristotle in I.3?

4. In addition to the life of pleasure and the life of politics, what is the third sort of life that Aristotle mentions?

5. Aristotle says that the magnanimous man cares more for what than for people's opinions?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the relationship that Aristotle claims exists between the virtues of courage and temperance?

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

3. What is Aristotle's distinction between the sort of injustice that is unlawful and the sort of injustice that is inequitable?

4. What are the conditions Aristotle gives for properly calling someone happy in Book I, Chapter 9, and why does he give these?

5. What is the distinction Aristotle makes between magnificence and generosity?

6. The magnanimous man is concerned with what things and in what manner, according to Aristotle?

7. Explain what is meant by Aristotle in saying that youth should not be involved in the study or practice of politics.

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

9. In the view of Aristotle, what is the opinion of the temperate person towards the pleasures in which the intemperate indulge?

10. From what difficulty, according to Aristotle, does the dispute concerning the nature of happiness, as the end of all actions, arise?

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