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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 demonstrated, in Aristotle's perspective, by the person who calmly bears misfortunes and sufferings?
(a) Something futile.
(b) Something hideous.
(c) Something unpredictable.
(d) Something beautiful.

2. In addition to vices of the soul, what other negative condition does Aristotle say comes about willingly in some people, in III.5?
(a) Public indecency.
(b) Insufficiency of the intellect.
(c) Corruptions of the body.
(d) Corruptions of the community.

3. Aristotle states that the good of one person is also, to a different degree, the good of what according to I.2?
(a) The city.
(b) Another person.
(c) An animal.
(d) The world.

4. To whom, or what, does Aristotle say the person who commits suicide is being unjust?
(a) The gods.
(b) The city.
(c) His teachers.
(d) Himself.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What causes a distortion to come about in most people, according to the opinion of Aristotle in III.4?

4. According to Aristotle, what is the mean condition between the vices of wastefulness and stinginess?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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?

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

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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