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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What determines, according to Aristotle's arguments in V.8, the justice or injustice of one's actions?
(a) Whether or not it is done willingly.
(b) Whether or not it deals with the community.
(c) Whether or not it deals with the whole person.
(d) Whether or not it is reciprocated.

2. What sort of person is he who brings food fit for a wedding to a small dinner, according to Aristotle?
(a) Vulgar.
(b) Irrational.
(c) Magnificent.
(d) Generous.

3. What two things does Aristotle define as contraries in II.8?
(a) The excess and deficiency.
(b) The extremes and the mean.
(c) The median and the mean.
(d) Vice and virtue.

4. From what does being in bad shape come to be evident, according to Aristotle?
(a) What constitutes being in good shape.
(b) What ends it produces.
(c) How the person acts.
(d) What symptoms it displays.

5. What is the immediate source of action, according to Aristotle in VI.2?
(a) Choice.
(b) Need.
(c) Sense.
(d) Desire.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many things does Aristotle state there are in the soul that govern action and truth?

2. Which word adequately indicates the character of the man whose vice is in opposition to that of the braggart, according to Aristotle's description?

3. Which of the following is NOT characteristic of Aristotle's magnanimous man?

4. Without what power of the soul does Aristotle state there cannot be a governing part of the soul?

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

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