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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book VIII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What determines the proper level of affection that one ought to give another, according to Aristotle?
(a) Temperance.
(b) Proportion.
(c) Love.
(d) Equality.

2. What, according to Aristotle in the beginning of V.6, makes an act unjust without necessarily making the person who commits it unjust?
(a) Passion.
(b) Deliberation.
(c) Choice.
(d) Coercion.

3. Among what sort of people does Aristotle regard mutual and equal friendships complete in all respects?
(a) Virtuous people.
(b) Elderly people.
(c) Free people.
(d) Alike people.

4. Aristotle states that one suffers injustice willingly in what situation?
(a) In no situation.
(b) In situations of sacrifice.
(c) In situations of poverty.
(d) In situations of judgment.

5. Which alone among the virtues seems, for Aristotle, to be someone else's good?
(a) Temperance.
(b) Courage.
(c) Magnanimity.
(d) Justice.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what is temperance principally concerned in the mind of Aristotle?

2. To whom, or what, does Aristotle say the person who commits suicide is being unjust?

3. What, in the observations of Aristotle, becomes of a man who is given the power to rule and gives himself more of what is good in itself?

4. Who is the source of action, according to Aristotle, of one who acts from spiritedness?

5. Which sort of political justice is most universal in Aristotle's view?

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