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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With what is the second part of the reasoning part of the soul concerned in the view of Aristotle?
(a) Things that might be but are not at all.
(b) Things that cannot be other than they are.
(c) Things that can be other than they are.
(d) Things that can never be.

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

3. Aristotle compares the relationship between spiritedness and reason to the relationship between what?
(a) A hasty servant and his master.
(b) Stone and a house-builder.
(c) A fiesty horse and a poor rider.
(d) A sick patient and a doctor.

4. Which of the following words least accurately describes the virtue that is the topic of IV.5?
(a) Good temper.
(b) Gentleness.
(c) Passivity.
(d) Mildness.

5. By doing what, in the opinion of Aristotle, does man make himself a certain sort of person?
(a) Opining.
(b) Wishing.
(c) Choosing.
(d) Desiring.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Aristotle's view, what virtue necessarily accompanies or is within the virtue of magnificence?

2. For what does Aristotle blame people when it comes to money, honor, victory, and gain?

3. Which of the powers of the soul that Aristotle claims is used to disclose truth is directed at the sources of truth?

4. Which of the following does Aristotle not list as a theory of that by which happiness comes about?

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

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