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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. By doing what, in the opinion of Aristotle, does man make himself a certain sort of person?
(a) Opining.
(b) Choosing.
(c) Desiring.
(d) Wishing.

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

4. Aristotle states in I.6 that it is nobler to give the higher honor to which of the following?
(a) The truth.
(b) The state.
(c) One's self.
(d) One's friends.

5. According to Aristotle, the highest good must be something that is what?
(a) Difficult to obtain.
(b) Complete.
(c) Incomplete.
(d) Easily obtained.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Aristotle claim is the most frightening thing in III.6?

2. Aristotle states that the good of one person is also, to a different degree, the good of what according to I.2?

3. In what do most people take refuge, according to the theory proposed by Aristotle, rather than perform virtuous acts?

4. What causes a distortion to come about in most people, according to the opinion of Aristotle in III.4?

5. From Aristotle's perspective, against the yardstick of what do men generally compare their actions?

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