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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Deliberation, as Aristotle states in VI.9, is a kind of what?
(a) Inquiry.
(b) Act.
(c) Decision.
(d) Choice.

2. Which of the following does Aristotle not list as a feeling that comes to be present in the soul?
(a) Joy.
(b) Longing.
(c) Fear.
(d) Knowledge.

3. To whom, or what, does Aristotle say the person who commits suicide is being unjust?
(a) The gods.
(b) The city.
(c) His teachers.
(d) Himself.

4. What vice is, according to Aristotle, in excess of the virtue of courage?
(a) Cowardice.
(b) Rashness.
(c) Sloth.
(d) Gluttony.

5. With what state of man's character is VII.5 concerned?
(a) Animality.
(b) Incontinence.
(c) Vice.
(d) Divinity.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which word adequately indicates the character of the man whose vice is in opposition to that of the braggart, according to Aristotle's description?

2. According to the Pythagoreans, the good belongs to what?

3. According to Aristotle, by what means do particulars, with which practical judgment is concerned, become known?

4. In what way does Aristotle claim the incontinent person is unlike the vicious?

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

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