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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What, according to Aristotle in the beginning of V.6, makes an act unjust without necessarily making the person who commits it unjust?
(a) Deliberation.
(b) Coercion.
(c) Choice.
(d) Passion.

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

3. How do lawmakers make citizens good in the opinion of Aristotle?
(a) By threatening them with punishment.
(b) By giving them positive incentives.
(c) By habituating them.
(d) By informing their intellects.

4. 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 can never be.
(c) Things that cannot be other than they are.
(d) Things that can be other than they are.

5. In addition to vices of the soul, what other negative condition does Aristotle say comes about willingly in some people, in III.5?
(a) Corruptions of the community.
(b) Insufficiency of the intellect.
(c) Corruptions of the body.
(d) Public indecency.

Short Answer Questions

1. In how many ways does Aristotle speak of the mean in II.6?

2. By their intelligent deliberations, concerning what are those who have practical judgment distinguished from others, according to Aristotle's philosophical inquiry?

3. Art, in the opinion of Aristotle, is concerned with what, according to VI.4?

4. Which of the following words least accurately describes the virtue that is the topic of IV.5?

5. What sort of person is he who brings food fit for a wedding to a small dinner, according to Aristotle?

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