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

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

3. Which sort of political justice is most universal in Aristotle's view?
(a) Conventional.
(b) Contractual.
(c) Empirical.
(d) Natural.

4. By human excellence, Aristotle means what?
(a) That which belongs to the body.
(b) That which belongs to the soul.
(c) That which belongs to the individual.
(d) That which belongs to mankind.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. For what do praise and blame come about, according to Aristotle in III.1?

2. In what does Aristotle say modern comedy consists, in IV.8?

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

4. In Aristotle's view, what virtue necessarily accompanies or is within the virtue of magnificence?

5. What is the literal prize for boxers, according to Aristotle in III.9?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to Aristotle, in what way is justice reciprocal, and why?

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

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

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

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

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

7. In what way does Aristotle state that it is impossible for one to do injustice to himself?

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

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

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

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