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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the worst person in the community in Aristotle's judgment?
(a) One who uses vice in relation strictly to others.
(b) One who uses virtue in relation to himself and ignores others.
(c) One who uses vice in relation to himself and others.
(d) One who uses vice in relation to himself alone.

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

3. What is the literal prize for boxers, according to Aristotle in III.9?
(a) A seat in the senate.
(b) A lordship.
(c) A golden medal.
(d) A crown of leaves.

4. How many virtues does magnanimity require, for Aristotle, in order to be in a person?
(a) Most of them.
(b) None of them.
(c) Three of them.
(d) All of them.

5. For what do praise and blame come about, according to Aristotle in III.1?
(a) Habits.
(b) Willing actions.
(c) Unwilling actions.
(d) Predispositions.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the difficulty Aristotle cites concerning the praise and blame of the moral quality of the actions of others?

2. By what is the mean determined, according to Aristotle's analysis in the beginning of Book VI?

3. What, according to Aristotle in the beginning of V.6, makes an act unjust without necessarily making the person who commits it unjust?

4. Deliberation is, for Aristotle, principally about the things to be done by whom?

5. According to Aristotle, by what means do particulars, with which practical judgment is concerned, become known?

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