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

2. Which two thinkers does Aristotle reference in X.8 concerning the nature of those who are happy?
(a) Solon and Anaxagoras.
(b) Socrates and Anaximander.
(c) Plato and Empedocles.
(d) Aeschylus and Parmenides.

3. Without what power of the soul does Aristotle state there cannot be a governing part of the soul?
(a) Wisdom.
(b) Intellect.
(c) Art.
(d) Practical judgment.

4. What is the immediate source of action, according to Aristotle in VI.2?
(a) Need.
(b) Choice.
(c) Sense.
(d) Desire.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What virtue does Aristotle state is concerned with the same things, and is present in the same things, as friendship?

3. Among what sort of people does Aristotle regard mutual and equal friendships complete in all respects?

4. For what does Aristotle blame people when it comes to money, honor, victory, and gain?

5. What quality does Aristotle state is involved in friendship in IX.6?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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