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

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

3. The attainment of serious moral stature is described by Aristotle in II.9 as being what?
(a) Hard work.
(b) Almost impossible.
(c) Impractical.
(d) Natural.

4. Concerning generosity, Aristotle says what concerning not taking something offered and giving something away?
(a) That they are equally difficult.
(b) That neither is difficult.
(c) That not taking something offered is harder.
(d) That giving something away is harder.

5. Aristotle states in I.6 that it is nobler to give the higher honor to which of the following?
(a) One's friends.
(b) The state.
(c) One's self.
(d) The truth.

Short Answer Questions

1. About what does man deliberate, according to Aristotle in III.3?

2. For Aristotle, the good of the human person is the activity of the soul in accordance with what?

3. 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?

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

5. Which of the following sort of expenditures does Aristotle NOT consider to be honorably magnificent?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the tripartite distinction in the soul that Aristotle makes in Chapter 13 of the first book?

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

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

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

7. What does it mean to say, as Aristotle explains it, that nothing can be habituated to be other than it is by nature?

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

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

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

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