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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following intellectual virtues does Aristotle say the incontinent person cannot have, at the beginning of VII.10?
(a) Practical judgment.
(b) Knowledge.
(c) Art.
(d) Intellect.

2. In what period of life does Aristotle state that the friendship of utility most frequently appears?
(a) Old age.
(b) One's prime.
(c) Middle age.
(d) Youth.

3. Where is the source of a willing act located, according to Aristotle?
(a) In oneself.
(b) In one's disposition.
(c) In one's nature.
(d) External to oneself.

4. A buffoon is described by Aristotle in IV.8 as someone who goes to extremes in order to make someone else do what?
(a) Cry.
(b) Abjure the gods.
(c) Steal.
(d) Laugh.

5. In Aristotle's view, the sort of virtue which is concerned with pleasures and pains belongs to what?
(a) Divine.
(b) Character.
(c) Thinking.
(d) Communal.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what is IX.3 concerned?

2. What fact does Aristotle point to in support of the hypothesis that living itself is a good?

3. By what is the mean determined, according to Aristotle's analysis in the beginning of Book VI?

4. For what sort of living environment does Aristotle say the human being is meant in IX.9?

5. What sort of pleasures are said by Aristotle to not have an excess?

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