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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 quality does Aristotle state is involved in friendship in IX.6?
(a) Severity of character.
(b) A lack of jealousy.
(c) Like-mindedness.
(d) Altruisim.

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

3. Words that concern things such as feelings and actions are less believable than what, according to Aristotle?
(a) Words concerning judgments.
(b) Actions themselves.
(c) Feelings themselves.
(d) Words concerning being.

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

5. For what does Aristotle blame people when it comes to money, honor, victory, and gain?
(a) Condemning those who seek them.
(b) Desiring them to excess.
(c) Desiring them in any way.
(d) Feigning interest in their acquisition.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does man look concerning things good and bad, as stated by Aristotle in VII.11?

2. 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?

3. Which kind of incontinence is least blameless, according to Aristotle's claims in VII.6?

4. What sort of person is opposite, in the opinion of Aristotle, the person who is soft?

5. With what virtue does Aristotle credit Eudoxus in X.2?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

5. 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?

6. 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?

7. What does Aristotle intend to convey by comparing vice to the disease of consumption (tuberculosis)?

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

9. 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?

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

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