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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The attainment of serious moral stature is described by Aristotle in II.9 as being what?
(a) Impractical.
(b) Hard work.
(c) Natural.
(d) Almost impossible.

2. What did the Pythagoreans say is simply just?
(a) Equity.
(b) Distribution.
(c) Reciprocity.
(d) Virtue.

3. What word, by the description of Aristotle, well-describes the person who considers himself worthy of great things, or to be magnanimous, but is not?
(a) Vain.
(b) High-minded.
(c) Vulgar.
(d) Proud.

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

5. In how many ways are things called courage according to Aristotle in Book Three?
(a) Five.
(b) Six.
(c) One.
(d) Ten.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what two conditions is courage principally concerned, according to Aristotle?

2. Deliberation, as Aristotle states in VI.9, is a kind of what?

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

4. Which of the powers of the soul that Aristotle claims is used to disclose truth is directed at the sources of truth?

5. 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?

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