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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What vice is, according to Aristotle, in excess of the virtue of courage?
(a) Gluttony.
(b) Sloth.
(c) Rashness.
(d) Cowardice.

2. In addition to the life of pleasure and the life of politics, what is the third sort of life that Aristotle mentions?
(a) The contemplative life.
(b) The hermetical life.
(c) The life of servitude.
(d) The life of rebellion.

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

4. With what virtue is III.10 concerned?
(a) Courage.
(b) Prudence.
(c) Temperance.
(d) Magnanimity.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Living in accordance with virtue can be said to be what, according to Aristotle?

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

3. What sort of men, in Aristotle's observations, are most confident in the various situations of war?

4. The attainment of serious moral stature is described by Aristotle in II.9 as being what?

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

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