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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. Amongst what age group does Aristotle report observing friendships forming less frequently?
(a) The elderly.
(b) The middle-aged.
(c) The youth.
(d) Children.

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

3. Concerning what do Aristotle and Socrates have a disagreement regarding the things that must be avoided that have to do with one's character?
(a) Animality.
(b) Pride.
(c) Incontinence.
(d) Vice.

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

5. With which of the following conditions does Aristotle compare the incontinent person in VII.10?
(a) Insanity.
(b) Animality.
(c) Bloodlust.
(d) Drunkenness.

Short Answer Questions

1. When will virtuous upbringing and exercises no longer be painful in the theory of Aristotle?

2. How many senses of the word "good" does Aristotle discuss in VII.12?

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

4. By their intelligent deliberations, concerning what are those who have practical judgment distinguished from others, according to Aristotle's philosophical inquiry?

5. To whose undemonstrated statements and opinions ought people pay attention, according to Aristotle?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why do friendships of utility quickly come about and subsequently dissolve, according to Aristotle?

3. Why does Aristotle end his discussion of ethics by beginning a discussion of politics?

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

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

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

7. 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?

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

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

10. What is the Aristotelian relationship between happiness, the gods, human beings, and animals, as discussed in X.8?

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