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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 sort of people does Aristotle state seldom turn up in positions of power?
(a) The incontinent.
(b) The vicious.
(c) The friendless.
(d) The virtuous.

2. In what sort of friendship are there no complaints, according to the view of Aristotle?
(a) Utility.
(b) Virtue.
(c) Familial.
(d) Pleasure.

3. With what virtue does Aristotle credit Eudoxus in X.2?
(a) Justice.
(b) Wisdom.
(c) Temperance.
(d) Courage.

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

5. To whom does man look concerning things good and bad, as stated by Aristotle in VII.11?
(a) The politician.
(b) The philosopher.
(c) The lawyer.
(d) The rhetorician.

Short Answer Questions

1. What question is presented in IX.9?

2. Friendship with whom is discussed in IX.4?

3. What does Aristotle discuss as being an impediment to happiness, despite many having an opinion to the contrary, in VII.13?

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

5. Art, in the opinion of Aristotle, is concerned with what, according to VI.4?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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. In what way does Aristotle agree with Socrates concerning knowledge and moral action?

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