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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 exchange for what is it perhaps enough, according to IX.1, to give what one can in return?
(a) Philosophy.
(b) Health.
(c) Mathematical learning.
(d) Knowledge of the gods.

2. With what sort of friendship is VIII.12 concerned?
(a) Friendship between inferiors and superiors.
(b) Friendship among women.
(c) Friendship with foreigners.
(d) Friendship in a family.

3. In what city alone does Aristotle say that the lawgiver has taken care for upbringing and virtuous exercises?
(a) Delphi.
(b) Athens.
(c) Crete.
(d) Sparta.

4. With what sort of friendship is VIII.14 concerned?
(a) Virtuous friendships.
(b) Familial friendships.
(c) Unequal friendships.
(d) Equal friendships.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the loving of what does Aristotle state there is no reciprocity, in VIII.2?

2. What does Aristotle claim the lover of self takes for himself?

3. What sort of relationship does Aristotle claim is impossible for people who do not have the quality mentioned at the beginning of IX.5?

4. Who, in the view of Aristotle, is incapable of having the sort of friendship described in IX.4?

5. According to Aristotle, by what means do particulars, with which practical judgment is concerned, become known?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain Aristotle's distinction between affection and friendship.

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

3. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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