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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) Money.
(d) Temperance.

2. Who is the source of action, according to Aristotle, of one who acts from spiritedness?
(a) The actor himself.
(b) Nature.
(c) The one who angers the actor.
(d) The gods.

3. From what does being in bad shape come to be evident, according to Aristotle?
(a) What symptoms it displays.
(b) How the person acts.
(c) What ends it produces.
(d) What constitutes being in good shape.

4. With what is temperance principally concerned in the mind of Aristotle?
(a) Intellectual virtue.
(b) Pains.
(c) Sexual deviance.
(d) Pleasures.

5. Which of the following does Aristotle not list as a theory of that by which happiness comes about?
(a) Learning.
(b) Biological nature.
(c) Training.
(d) Divine providence.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sort of men, in Aristotle's observations, are most confident in the various situations of war?

2. Which of the following aptly describes virtues and vices in a manner consistent with Aristotle's description?

3. About what does man deliberate, according to Aristotle in III.3?

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

5. Which of the following does Aristotle not list as a feeling that comes to be present in the soul?

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