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

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

3. In Aristotle's view, the sort of virtue which is concerned with pleasures and pains belongs to what?
(a) Divine.
(b) Communal.
(c) Thinking.
(d) Character.

4. For what do praise and blame come about, according to Aristotle in III.1?
(a) Unwilling actions.
(b) Predispositions.
(c) Habits.
(d) Willing actions.

5. According to Aristotle, to what degree do the fortunes of one's family and friends likely impact the deceased?
(a) An almost infinite amount.
(b) A great degree.
(c) No amount at all.
(d) A small degree.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many virtues does magnanimity require, for Aristotle, in order to be in a person?

2. With what is temperance principally concerned in the mind of Aristotle?

3. How many types of virtue does Aristotle claim exist at the beginning of Book II?

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

5. In the opinion of Aristotle, what is the governing and most masterful art under which all others fall, according to I.2?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Aristotle mean by saying that every art, inquiry, action, and choice aims at some good?

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

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

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

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

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