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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

3. To whom, or what, does Aristotle say the person who commits suicide is being unjust?
(a) The city.
(b) His teachers.
(c) Himself.
(d) The gods.

4. Who, in the opinion of Aristotle, is benefited by a stingy person?
(a) The rich.
(b) No one.
(c) Himself.
(d) Everyone.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which alone among the virtues seems, for Aristotle, to be someone else's good?

2. How many conditions does Aristotle list as necessary for an act to be performed virtuously?

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

4. How many types of justice are discussed in V.4?

5. Concerning generosity, Aristotle says what concerning not taking something offered and giving something away?

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