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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. Actions that pertain to what two things are considered by Aristotle to be the most beautiful and magnificent?
(a) Rhetoric and reputation.
(b) Truth and discourse.
(c) Fame and wealth.
(d) War and politics.

2. Friendship with whom is discussed in IX.4?
(a) One's mentor.
(b) One's lover.
(c) Oneself.
(d) One's father.

3. With what is the second part of the reasoning part of the soul concerned in the view of Aristotle?
(a) Things that might be but are not at all.
(b) Things that cannot be other than they are.
(c) Things that can never be.
(d) Things that can be other than they are.

4. 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?
(a) Camaraderie.
(b) Governance.
(c) Fear.
(d) Moral virtue.

5. From Aristotle's perspective, what sort of friendship do complaints and reproaches most frequently arise?
(a) Familial.
(b) Virtue.
(c) Pleasure.
(d) Utility.

Short Answer Questions

1. What question is presented in IX.9?

2. As Aristotle says in X.3, according to some people, if pleasure is not classed among qualities, it is also not classed among what?

3. With what sort of friendship is VIII.14 concerned?

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

5. By what is the mean determined, according to Aristotle's analysis in the beginning of Book VI?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. 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?

7. Explain the distinction of Aristotle between having goodwill and having friendship that Aristotle points to in IX.5.

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

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

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

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