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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. About what good and aim of politics do people commonly dispute, according to Aristotle?
(a) Justice.
(b) Wealth.
(c) Power.
(d) Happiness.

3. In I.12, Aristotle states that praise belongs properly to what?
(a) Humanity.
(b) Virtue.
(c) Effort.
(d) Divinity.

4. In Aristotle's thinking, the function of man is an activity of soul which follows upon or implies the soul's possession of what?
(a) Reason.
(b) Temperance.
(c) Love.
(d) Money.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the virtuous disposition most directly concerned, for Aristotle, with playfulness and humor?

2. Aristotle states in I.6 that it is nobler to give the higher honor to which of the following?

3. What extreme is most comparable to the virtue of courage in the opinion of Aristotle?

4. With what is temperance principally concerned in the mind of Aristotle?

5. Which of the following does Aristotle not list as a feeling that comes to be present in the soul?

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