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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Aristotle claim is the most frightening thing in III.6?
(a) Hell.
(b) Illness.
(c) Old age.
(d) Death.

3. According to the Pythagoreans, the good belongs to what?
(a) The simple.
(b) The limited.
(c) The unlimited.
(d) The complicated.

4. With what is temperance principally concerned in the mind of Aristotle?
(a) Pains.
(b) Intellectual virtue.
(c) Sexual deviance.
(d) Pleasures.

5. How does Aristotle say the lawmakers ought to treat people who act beautifully?
(a) With lavish praise.
(b) With honor.
(c) With caution.
(d) With contempt.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the difficulty Aristotle cites concerning the praise and blame of the moral quality of the actions of others?

2. The irrational part of the soul is said by Aristotle to be how many fold?

3. With which of the following is politics imminently concerned, as described by Aristotle in I.3?

4. In I.12, Aristotle states that praise belongs properly to what?

5. For what do praise and blame come about, according to Aristotle in III.1?

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