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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 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) Camaraderie.
(b) Fear.
(c) Governance.
(d) Moral virtue.

2. To whose undemonstrated statements and opinions ought people pay attention, according to Aristotle?
(a) The quick-witted and youthful.
(b) The teachers of the youth.
(c) The experienced and elderly.
(d) The wise and powerful.

3. For what sort of living environment does Aristotle say the human being is meant in IX.9?
(a) Suburban.
(b) Rural.
(c) Urban.
(d) Nomadic.

4. From which of the following does Aristotle say the activities of thinking differ in kind?
(a) Perceiving.
(b) Virtues.
(c) Pains.
(d) Labors.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Aristotle states, in Book VIII, that friendship is a kind of what?

2. What does Aristotle, in VIII.5, say causes forgetfulness of friendship?

3. Deliberation, as Aristotle states in VI.9, is a kind of what?

4. With what sort of friendship is VIII.14 concerned?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. For Aristotle, in what way is a neutral or idle state detrimental to many individuals' moral character?

7. 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?

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

9. 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?

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

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