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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Aristotle claim is the most frightening thing in III.6?
(a) Death.
(b) Illness.
(c) Old age.
(d) Hell.

2. Aristotle claims that a man is inspired to take more than his due out of which vice?
(a) Injustice.
(b) Lechery.
(c) Greed.
(d) Intemperance.

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

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

5. With what sort of friendship is VIII.12 concerned?
(a) Friendship among women.
(b) Friendship with foreigners.
(c) Friendship between inferiors and superiors.
(d) Friendship in a family.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what is temperance principally concerned in the mind of Aristotle?

2. Where is the source of a willing act located, according to Aristotle?

3. In VIII.12, Aristotle states that every sort of friendship is in what?

4. Which alone among the virtues seems, for Aristotle, to be someone else's good?

5. Aristotle states that as a child needs an instructor, so too do the desiring parts of the soul need what?

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