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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. What two things does Aristotle state are linked together in the beginning of X.8?
(a) Moral virtue and wisdom.
(b) Practical judgment and moral virtue.
(c) Practical judgment and feelings.
(d) Moral virtue and art.

2. Which kind of incontinence is least blameless, according to Aristotle's claims in VII.6?
(a) That from viciousness.
(b) That from scheming.
(c) That from desires.
(d) That from spiritedness.

3. How many senses of the word "good" does Aristotle discuss in VII.12?
(a) Six.
(b) Seven.
(c) Eight.
(d) Two.

4. 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.

5. 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) An animal.
(b) A woman.
(c) A child.
(d) A moron.

Short Answer Questions

1. When do people eat snacks the most in theaters, according to Aristotle in X.5?

2. What does the continent person have, by Aristotle's estimation, that the temperate person does not?

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

4. How many kinds of things does Aristotle say there are that must be avoided, having to do with one's character?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Explain the distinction, and its significance, between Socrates and Aristotle on the relationship between knowledge and moral action.

4. 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?

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

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

7. Why does Aristotle state that there is a virtue connected with art, but that practical judgment is itself an end?

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

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

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

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