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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 sort of pleasures are said by Aristotle to not have an excess?
(a) Those that involve no pains.
(b) Those that are pleasant to the virtuous.
(c) Those whose contraries are painful.
(d) Those that are pleasureful incidentally.

2. For what does Aristotle blame people when it comes to money, honor, victory, and gain?
(a) Feigning interest in their acquisition.
(b) Condemning those who seek them.
(c) Desiring them to excess.
(d) Desiring them in any way.

3. Which of the powers of the soul that Aristotle claims is used to disclose truth is directed at the sources of truth?
(a) Intellect.
(b) Practical judgment.
(c) Wisdom.
(d) Knowledge.

4. What two forces does Aristotle claim determine the strength of an obligation to another person, in a situation where there is a conflict, according to IX.2?
(a) Earth and fire.
(b) Justice and mercy.
(c) Beauty and necessity.
(d) Debt and love.

5. What is the impasse Aristotle confronts in IX.8?
(a) Whether one ought to not love himself at all.
(b) Whether one should love his parents or his wife the most.
(c) Whether one should love himself or another the most.
(d) Whether one ought to love himself like he loves others.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what sort of friendship are there no complaints, according to the view of Aristotle?

2. How many kinds of things does Aristotle say there are that must be avoided, having to do with one's character?

3. In the loving of what does Aristotle state there is no reciprocity, in VIII.2?

4. What is a fitting word for the capacity that Aristotle describes as allowing people to easily achieve one's goal or object?

5. Aristotle compares the relationship between spiritedness and reason to the relationship between what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is meant by Aristotle saying that pleasures from different sources can be impediments to activities?

2. In what way does Aristotle agree with Socrates concerning knowledge and moral action?

3. Why does Aristotle state that politics and practical judgment cannot be the highest or most serious things for man's consideration?

4. What is the essential unity that Aristotle claims between knowledge and action in the person possessed of practical judgment?

5. What is the significance of Aristotle saying that the active conditions of the soul that are the intellectual virtues produce something, not as medicine produces health, but as health produces health?

6. According to Aristotle, why ought a good person be a lover of himself and a bad person not?

7. Through the possession of what virtue, according to Aristotle, is man said to have possession of all the intellectual virtues, at least to some degree, and why?

8. Explain the distinction, and its significance, between Socrates and Aristotle on the relationship between knowledge and moral action.

9. In what way, for Aristotle, do the pursuits of actions in accord with the virtues that pertain to politics and war differ from those that pertain to contemplation?

10. Explain the relationship Aristotle makes note of between affirming and denying in thinking and pursuing, and avoiding in desiring.

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