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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. Near the end of X.3, Aristotle says that no one would choose to live their lives having the thinking of what sort of person?
(a) A woman.
(b) A moron.
(c) An animal.
(d) A child.

2. Friendship with whom is discussed in IX.4?
(a) One's lover.
(b) Oneself.
(c) One's father.
(d) One's mentor.

3. In X.1, Aristotle says that people educate the young by what two means?
(a) Philosophy ad rhetoric.
(b) Truth and justice.
(c) Friendship and love.
(d) Pleasure and pain.

4. Aristotle states, in Book VIII, that friendship is a kind of what?
(a) Vice.
(b) Pleasure.
(c) Virtue.
(d) Divinity.

5. What do the natural sorts of active conditions of the human person need, by Aristotle's observations, in order to be used for the good?
(a) Governance.
(b) Fear.
(c) Camaraderie.
(d) Moral virtue.

Short Answer Questions

1. By what is the mean determined, according to Aristotle's analysis in the beginning of Book VI?

2. Without what power of the soul does Aristotle state there cannot be a governing part of the soul?

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

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

5. What sort of pleasures are said by Aristotle to not have an excess?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Explain Aristotle's distinction between affection and friendship.

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

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. Why does Aristotle state that words concerning feelings and actions are less believable than actions themselves?

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

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

8. Why does Aristotle end his discussion of ethics by beginning a discussion of politics?

9. Why is it that having friends in a time of one's good fortune is, in the philosophy of Aristotle, more beautiful than in other times?

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

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