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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Aristotle say the lawmakers ought to treat people who act beautifully?
(a) With lavish praise.
(b) With honor.
(c) With contempt.
(d) With caution.

2. What word, by the description of Aristotle, well-describes the person who considers himself worthy of great things, or to be magnanimous, but is not?
(a) Proud.
(b) Vulgar.
(c) High-minded.
(d) Vain.

3. The equitable distribution of justice is a certain kind of what, according to Aristotle?
(a) Deficiency.
(b) Proportion.
(c) Exactness of arithmetic.
(d) Excess.

4. Where is the source of a willing act located, according to Aristotle?
(a) External to oneself.
(b) In one's nature.
(c) In oneself.
(d) In one's disposition.

5. Concerning generosity, Aristotle says what concerning not taking something offered and giving something away?
(a) That giving something away is harder.
(b) That neither is difficult.
(c) That not taking something offered is harder.
(d) That they are equally difficult.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What two things does Aristotle define as contraries in II.8?

5. Of what two elements does Aristotle determine that wisdom is composed?

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