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

2. Which of the following intellectual virtues does Aristotle say the incontinent person cannot have, at the beginning of VII.10?
(a) Practical judgment.
(b) Intellect.
(c) Knowledge.
(d) Art.

3. What determines the proper level of affection that one ought to give another, according to Aristotle?
(a) Equality.
(b) Temperance.
(c) Proportion.
(d) Love.

4. Art, in the opinion of Aristotle, is concerned with what, according to VI.4?
(a) Chance.
(b) Fate.
(c) Making.
(d) Action.

5. Which of the following is NOT one of the things that must be avoided, having to do with one's character, according to Aristotle's claims in the beginning of VII.1?
(a) Animality.
(b) Incontinence.
(c) Vice.
(d) Pride.

Short Answer Questions

1. What virtue does Aristotle state is concerned with the same things, and is present in the same things, as friendship?

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

3. What two things does Aristotle state are linked together in the beginning of X.8?

4. What person does Aristotle claim most notably feels love just in knowing a person, and not in receiving love returned?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What characterizes the blame put upon people who are in animal-like conditions, according to Aristotle's perspective?

2. What is the Aristotelian relationship between happiness, the gods, human beings, and animals, as discussed in X.8?

3. Why is it said by Aristotle that the lesser types of friendship are called friendship only insofar as they resemble the highest?

4. Why does Aristotle state that mothers have greater love for their children than children for their parents?

5. Give an example of something affirmed by knowledge, as that which cannot be otherwise than it is.

6. Why does Aristotle state that there is a virtue connected with art, but that practical judgment is itself an end?

7. Why is it difficult, in the opinion of Aristotle, for a person to have many close and virtuous friends?

8. Explain the three sorts of friendship described in Book VIII.

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

10. For Aristotle, in what does the relationship between man's nature and his need for friends consist?

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