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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what do most people take refuge, according to the theory proposed by Aristotle, rather than perform virtuous acts?
(a) Pleasure.
(b) Vice.
(c) Philosophy.
(d) Talk.

2. What sort of men, in Aristotle's observations, are most confident in the various situations of war?
(a) The naturally courageous.
(b) The ignorant.
(c) The reckless.
(d) The experienced.

3. In how many ways are things called courage according to Aristotle in Book Three?
(a) Ten.
(b) One.
(c) Five.
(d) Six.

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

5. Living in accordance with virtue can be said to be what, according to Aristotle?
(a) Almost impossible.
(b) Remarkably easy.
(c) Always difficult.
(d) Pleasant in itself.

Short Answer Questions

1. About what good and aim of politics do people commonly dispute, according to Aristotle?

2. What is the literal prize for boxers, according to Aristotle in III.9?

3. Aristotle states that the good of one person is also, to a different degree, the good of what according to I.2?

4. What vice is, according to Aristotle, in deficiency of the virtue of courage?

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

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