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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With what virtue is III.10 concerned?
(a) Prudence.
(b) Magnanimity.
(c) Courage.
(d) Temperance.

2. At what does every action seem to aim, according to Aristotle?
(a) Some good.
(b) Some target.
(c) Some profit.
(d) Another action.

3. In contrast to wishing, which is for an end, for what is choosing in Aristotle's philosophical view?
(a) Things related to others.
(b) Things related to the self.
(c) Things related to the end.
(d) Things related to the means.

4. With which of the following is politics imminently concerned, as described by Aristotle in I.3?
(a) Foreign affairs.
(b) The nature of justice.
(c) The nature of power.
(d) The codification of law.

5. For the sake of what does Aristotle state the courageous person endures the fearful?
(a) The gods.
(b) The beautiful.
(c) His family.
(d) Himself.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what two conditions is courage principally concerned, according to Aristotle?

2. What causes a distortion to come about in most people, according to the opinion of Aristotle in III.4?

3. According to Aristotle, the highest good must be something that is what?

4. In addition to the life of pleasure and the life of politics, what is the third sort of life that Aristotle mentions?

5. For Aristotle, the good of the human person is the activity of the soul in accordance with what?

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