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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. How many kinds of things does Aristotle say there are that must be avoided, having to do with one's character?
(a) Twelve.
(b) A thousand.
(c) Five.
(d) Three.

2. Near the end of X.3, Aristotle says that no one would choose to live their lives having the thinking of what sort of person?
(a) A woman.
(b) An animal.
(c) A moron.
(d) A child.

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

4. In the loving of what does Aristotle state there is no reciprocity, in VIII.2?
(a) Inanimate things.
(b) Spouses.
(c) Children.
(d) Animals.

5. With what sort of artists does Aristotle draw a comparison concerning the incontinent?
(a) Sculptors.
(b) Singers.
(c) Painters.
(d) Actors.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Aristotle reference as taking in payment whatever his student desired to pay for the knowledge he would learn?

2. How many powers of the soul does Aristotle claim disclose truth by discursive reasoning?

3. What two things does Aristotle state are linked together in the beginning of X.8?

4. What does Aristotle say one must do in addition to knowing virtue?

5. In what sort of life is self-sufficiency most present in the view of Aristotle?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

5. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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