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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. With what sort of friendship is VIII.14 concerned?
(a) Unequal friendships.
(b) Equal friendships.
(c) Familial friendships.
(d) Virtuous friendships.

2. Aristotle states that food is more pleasant than gold to what?
(a) A donkey.
(b) A wealthy man.
(c) A child.
(d) A philosopher.

3. What does Aristotle claim the lover of self takes for himself?
(a) The things that belong to himself.
(b) The things that he finds most pleasurable.
(c) The things that he finds most beautiful.
(d) The things that belong to others.

4. With what sort of friendship is VIII.12 concerned?
(a) Friendship in a family.
(b) Friendship with foreigners.
(c) Friendship between inferiors and superiors.
(d) Friendship among women.

5. What does Aristotle discuss as being an impediment to happiness, despite many having an opinion to the contrary, in VII.13?
(a) Wisdom.
(b) Good fortune.
(c) Pain itself.
(d) Pleasure itself.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what sort of artists does Aristotle draw a comparison concerning the incontinent?

2. What sort of relationship does Aristotle claim is impossible for people who do not have the quality mentioned at the beginning of IX.5?

3. Which of the powers of the soul that Aristotle claims is used to disclose truth is directed at the sources of truth?

4. Aristotle states in X.4 that a change of place is what?

5. In what city alone does Aristotle say that the lawgiver has taken care for upbringing and virtuous exercises?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Aristotle state that pleasure is not a motion?

2. What is one reason Aristotle gives for which someone ought not to treat former friends in some way different than strangers if the friendship was dissolved to to an excess of vice?

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

4. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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