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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 I.12, Aristotle states that praise belongs properly to what?
(a) Virtue.
(b) Divinity.
(c) Effort.
(d) Humanity.

2. What sort of men, in Aristotle's observations, are most confident in the various situations of war?
(a) The ignorant.
(b) The naturally courageous.
(c) The experienced.
(d) The reckless.

3. About what does man deliberate, according to Aristotle in III.3?
(a) Things related to the means.
(b) Things related to the end.
(c) The ends themselves.
(d) Things related to the self.

4. In the opinion of Aristotle, what is the governing and most masterful art under which all others fall, according to I.2?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Ethics.
(c) Politics.
(d) Philosophy.

5. Which of the following aptly describes virtues and vices in a manner consistent with Aristotle's description?
(a) Predispositions.
(b) Active conditions.
(c) Feelings.
(d) Intellectual states.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word, by the description of Aristotle, well-describes the person who considers himself worthy of great things, or to be magnanimous, but is not?

2. Aristotle states that as a child needs an instructor, so too do the desiring parts of the soul need what?

3. To whom, or what, does Aristotle say the person who commits suicide is being unjust?

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

5. What sort of person is he who brings food fit for a wedding to a small dinner, according to Aristotle?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the relationship that Aristotle cites as existing between opposites in coming to know what is or is not the right way for a thing to be, such as health?

2. What is the relationship of virtues to extremes of excess and deficiency in the philosophy of Aristotle?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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