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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. At what does every action seem to aim, according to Aristotle?
(a) Some target.
(b) Some good.
(c) Another action.
(d) Some profit.

2. Where is the source of a willing act located, according to Aristotle?
(a) External to oneself.
(b) In one's disposition.
(c) In oneself.
(d) In one's nature.

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

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

5. The irrational part of the soul is said by Aristotle to be how many fold?
(a) Three-fold.
(b) Two-fold.
(c) Four-fold.
(d) Manifold.

Short Answer Questions

1. In how many ways does Aristotle speak of good things in I.6?

2. In how many ways are things called courage according to Aristotle in Book Three?

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

4. Which of the following is NOT characteristic of Aristotle's magnanimous man?

5. Who, in the opinion of Aristotle, is benefited by a stingy person?

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

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

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

5. What is the distinction Aristotle makes between magnificence and generosity?

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

7. 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.

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

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

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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