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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 cannot be other than they are.
(b) Things that might be but are not at all.
(c) Things that can be other than they are.
(d) Things that can never be.

2. Deliberation is, for Aristotle, principally about the things to be done by whom?
(a) Oneself.
(b) The state.
(c) Others.
(d) The community.

3. What do the natural sorts of active conditions of the human person need, by Aristotle's observations, in order to be used for the good?
(a) Camaraderie.
(b) Moral virtue.
(c) Governance.
(d) Fear.

4. To whose undemonstrated statements and opinions ought people pay attention, according to Aristotle?
(a) The quick-witted and youthful.
(b) The experienced and elderly.
(c) The teachers of the youth.
(d) The wise and powerful.

5. By what is the mean determined, according to Aristotle's analysis in the beginning of Book VI?
(a) Right reason.
(b) Law.
(c) Personal choice.
(d) Fate.

Short Answer Questions

1. By what means, according to Aristotle in V.5, does a community or a city stay together?

2. 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?

3. Aristotle states that one suffers injustice willingly in what situation?

4. Which of the following aptly describes virtues and vices in a manner consistent with Aristotle's description?

5. What is the literal prize for boxers, according to Aristotle in III.9?

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