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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) Virtues.
(b) Vices.
(c) Conditional values.
(d) Feelings.

2. Which alone among the virtues seems, for Aristotle, to be someone else's good?
(a) Magnanimity.
(b) Justice.
(c) Temperance.
(d) Courage.

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

4. How many virtues does magnanimity require, for Aristotle, in order to be in a person?
(a) Most of them.
(b) Three of them.
(c) All of them.
(d) None of them.

5. With what is temperance principally concerned in the mind of Aristotle?
(a) Pains.
(b) Pleasures.
(c) Sexual deviance.
(d) Intellectual virtue.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does Aristotle explicitly claim is better than acting unjustly in V.11?

2. How does Aristotle say the lawmakers ought to treat people who act beautifully?

3. Which of the following does Aristotle not list as a feeling that comes to be present in the soul?

4. Aristotle says that the magnanimous man cares more for what than for people's opinions?

5. Aristotle claims that a man is inspired to take more than his due out of which vice?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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.

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

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

4. How does Aristotle characterize those who are rash?

5. In what way does Aristotle claim gentleness (or mildness) is related to the virtues concerned with honor and magnanimity?

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 relationship that Aristotle claims exists between the virtues of courage and temperance?

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

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

10. Explain Aristotle's distinction between the good and the apparent good, and those who pursue each, as given in III.4.

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