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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the difficulty Aristotle cites concerning the praise and blame of the moral quality of the actions of others?
(a) Judging in relation to the mean.
(b) Extrapolation of the truth.
(c) Distance from prejudice.
(d) Restraint of the masses.

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

3. In how many ways does Aristotle speak of the mean in II.6?
(a) Three.
(b) Four.
(c) Two.
(d) One.

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. In contrast to wishing, which is for an end, for what is choosing in Aristotle's philosophical view?
(a) Things related to the means.
(b) Things related to others.
(c) Things related to the self.
(d) Things related to the end.

Short Answer Questions

1. What vice is, according to Aristotle, in deficiency of the virtue of courage?

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

3. How many types of virtue does Aristotle claim exist at the beginning of Book II?

4. Deliberation is, for Aristotle, principally about the things to be done by whom?

5. With what virtue is III.10 concerned?

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