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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About what, concerning the virtues, might one raise a problem, as Aristotle states in VI.12?
(a) Their usefulness.
(b) Their societal fecundity.
(c) Their veracity.
(d) Their complementary nature.

2. What vice is, according to Aristotle, in deficiency of the virtue of courage?
(a) Cowardice.
(b) Gluttony.
(c) Sloth.
(d) Rashness.

3. What is a fitting word for the capacity that Aristotle describes as allowing people to easily achieve one's goal or object?
(a) Cleverness.
(b) Coherence.
(c) Alacrity.
(d) Sincerity.

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

5. About what does man deliberate, according to Aristotle in III.3?
(a) Things related to the means.
(b) Things related to the end.
(c) The ends themselves.
(d) Things related to the self.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom, or what, does Aristotle say the person who commits suicide is being unjust?

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

3. How does Aristotle say the lawmakers ought to treat people who act beautifully?

4. How do lawmakers make citizens good in the opinion of Aristotle?

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

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