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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.12 concerned?
(a) Friendship among women.
(b) Friendship with foreigners.
(c) Friendship between inferiors and superiors.
(d) Friendship in a family.

2. In what status of life is having good friends considered beautiful by Aristotle in IX.11?
(a) Unusual circumstances.
(b) Bad fortune.
(c) Diurnal proceedings.
(d) Good fortune.

3. Aristotle compares the relationship between spiritedness and reason to the relationship between what?
(a) A sick patient and a doctor.
(b) Stone and a house-builder.
(c) A fiesty horse and a poor rider.
(d) A hasty servant and his master.

4. Whom does Aristotle reference as taking in payment whatever his student desired to pay for the knowledge he would learn?
(a) Plato.
(b) Protagoras.
(c) Anaximenes.
(d) Empedocles.

5. In what period of life does Aristotle state that the friendship of utility most frequently appears?
(a) Middle age.
(b) Old age.
(c) Youth.
(d) One's prime.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sort of people does Aristotle state seldom turn up in positions of power?

2. 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?

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

4. How many things does Aristotle state there are in the soul that govern action and truth?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

4. Why do friendships of utility quickly come about and subsequently dissolve, according to Aristotle?

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

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

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

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. Explain Aristotle's distinction between affection and friendship.

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