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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Living in accordance with virtue can be said to be what, according to Aristotle?
(a) Always difficult.
(b) Remarkably easy.
(c) Almost impossible.
(d) Pleasant in itself.

2. Where is the source of a willing act located, according to Aristotle?
(a) In oneself.
(b) In one's disposition.
(c) In one's nature.
(d) External to oneself.

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

4. In Aristotle's view, the sort of virtue which is concerned with pleasures and pains belongs to what?
(a) Character.
(b) Communal.
(c) Divine.
(d) Thinking.

5. With what two conditions is courage principally concerned, according to Aristotle?
(a) Knowledge and ignorance.
(b) Fear and confidence.
(c) Cowardice and rage.
(d) Love and hatred.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In how many ways does Aristotle speak of good things in I.6?

3. According to the Pythagoreans, the good belongs to what?

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

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

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