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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. With what is the virtue of generosity concerned, according to Aristotle?
(a) Time.
(b) Fame.
(c) Money.
(d) Possessions.

2. Which of the following is NOT characteristic of Aristotle's magnanimous man?
(a) A deep voice.
(b) Slowness of movement.
(c) Anxiety.
(d) Lack of wonderment.

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

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

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. With what is V.10 concerned?

2. According to the Pythagoreans, the good belongs to what?

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

4. From Aristotle's perspective, against the yardstick of what do men generally compare their actions?

5. How do lawmakers make citizens good in the opinion of Aristotle?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Aristotle mean by saying that a virtue is an active condition or state of the soul?

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

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

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

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

9. 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?

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

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