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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. Who, in the opinion of Aristotle, is benefited by a stingy person?
(a) No one.
(b) The rich.
(c) Everyone.
(d) Himself.

2. Aristotle states that as a child needs an instructor, so too do the desiring parts of the soul need what?
(a) Rest.
(b) Reason.
(c) Freedom.
(d) A body.

3. What is the literal prize for boxers, according to Aristotle in III.9?
(a) A crown of leaves.
(b) A golden medal.
(c) A lordship.
(d) A seat in the senate.

4. Which of the following most accurately describes the behavior of one of the vices Aristotle discusses in IV.6?
(a) Obdurate.
(b) Incoherent.
(c) Obsequious.
(d) Violent.

5. Living in accordance with virtue can be said to be what, according to Aristotle?
(a) Almost impossible.
(b) Remarkably easy.
(c) Always difficult.
(d) Pleasant in itself.

Short Answer Questions

1. For the sake of what does Aristotle state the courageous person endures the fearful?

2. How many types of justice are discussed in V.4?

3. What is demonstrated, in Aristotle's perspective, by the person who calmly bears misfortunes and sufferings?

4. What determines, according to Aristotle's arguments in V.8, the justice or injustice of one's actions?

5. How many virtues does magnanimity require, for Aristotle, in order to be in a person?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Aristotle characterize those who are rash?

3. What characterizes Aristotle's notion of the generous person?

4. Why is doing injustice worse than suffering injustice, from Aristotle's perspective?

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

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

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

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

9. To which of the vicious extremes is the truthful man closer in disposition and why, according to Aristotle?

10. What is the distinction between the mean in the thing itself and the mean in relation to a man as Aristotle explains it?

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