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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Aristotle claims that a man is inspired to take more than his due out of which vice?
(a) Intemperance.
(b) Lechery.
(c) Injustice.
(d) Greed.

3. What two things does Aristotle define as contraries in II.8?
(a) The extremes and the mean.
(b) The excess and deficiency.
(c) Vice and virtue.
(d) The median and the mean.

4. From what does being in bad shape come to be evident, according to Aristotle?
(a) How the person acts.
(b) What symptoms it displays.
(c) What ends it produces.
(d) What constitutes being in good shape.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the powers of the soul that Aristotle claims is used to disclose truth is directed at the sources of truth?

2. What, according to Aristotle in the beginning of V.6, makes an act unjust without necessarily making the person who commits it unjust?

3. Which power of the soul does Aristotle describe in VI.11 as being concerned with both the beginning and the end?

4. For what do praise and blame come about, according to Aristotle in III.1?

5. From Aristotle's perspective, against the yardstick of what do men generally compare their actions?

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