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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What, in the observations of Aristotle, becomes of a man who is given the power to rule and gives himself more of what is good in itself?
(a) He becomes greedy.
(b) He becomes a tyrant.
(c) He is soon killed.
(d) He is punished by law.

2. Which of the powers of the soul that Aristotle claims is used to disclose truth is directed at the sources of truth?
(a) Practical judgment.
(b) Wisdom.
(c) Knowledge.
(d) Intellect.

3. Which sort of political justice is most universal in Aristotle's view?
(a) Contractual.
(b) Empirical.
(c) Conventional.
(d) Natural.

4. Which word adequately indicates the character of the man whose vice is in opposition to that of the braggart, according to Aristotle's description?
(a) Truthful.
(b) Congenial.
(c) Lecherous.
(d) Ironic.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following most accurately describes the behavior of one of the vices Aristotle discusses in IV.6?

2. In what does Aristotle say modern comedy consists, in IV.8?

3. What sort of men, in Aristotle's observations, are most confident in the various situations of war?

4. What extreme is most comparable to the virtue of courage in the opinion of Aristotle?

5. Which of the following does Aristotle explicitly claim is better than acting unjustly in V.11?

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