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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book VII.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. According to Aristotle, what is the mean condition between the vices of wastefulness and stinginess?
(a) Generosity.
(b) Temperance.
(c) Prudence.
(d) Fortitude.
2. By what is the mean determined, according to Aristotle's analysis in the beginning of Book VI?
(a) Right reason.
(b) Fate.
(c) Law.
(d) Personal choice.
3. In what way does Aristotle claim the incontinent person is unlike the vicious?
(a) The latter is ignorant.
(b) The former is ignorant.
(c) The latter acts through choice.
(d) The former acts through choice.
4. What, according to Aristotle in the beginning of V.6, makes an act unjust without necessarily making the person who commits it unjust?
(a) Deliberation.
(b) Choice.
(c) Coercion.
(d) Passion.
5. With what is the virtue that Aristotle describes in IV.4 concerned?
(a) Honor.
(b) Truth.
(c) Justice.
(d) Money.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the immediate source of action, according to Aristotle in VI.2?
2. The equitable distribution of justice is a certain kind of what, according to Aristotle?
3. In how many ways are things called courage according to Aristotle in Book Three?
4. For Aristotle, the good of the human person is the activity of the soul in accordance with what?
5. Aristotle states in I.6 that it is nobler to give the higher honor to which of the following?
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