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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Aristotle's thinking, the function of man is an activity of soul which follows upon or implies the soul's possession of what?
(a) Love.
(b) Reason.
(c) Temperance.
(d) Money.

2. By what means, according to Aristotle in V.5, does a community or a city stay together?
(a) Religion.
(b) Housebuilding.
(c) Exchange.
(d) Slavery.

3. Which alone among the virtues seems, for Aristotle, to be someone else's good?
(a) Courage.
(b) Justice.
(c) Magnanimity.
(d) Temperance.

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

5. What is the difficulty Aristotle cites concerning the praise and blame of the moral quality of the actions of others?
(a) Extrapolation of the truth.
(b) Restraint of the masses.
(c) Distance from prejudice.
(d) Judging in relation to the mean.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a suitable category, in Aristotle's view, in which to place the feeling of shame?

2. What, in the observations of Aristotle, becomes of a man who is given the power to rule and gives himself more of what is good in itself?

3. Who is the worst person in the community in Aristotle's judgment?

4. Aristotle claims that a man is inspired to take more than his due out of which vice?

5. What does Aristotle claim is the most frightening thing in III.6?

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