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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. For the sake of what does Aristotle state the courageous person endures the fearful?
(a) Himself.
(b) The beautiful.
(c) The gods.
(d) His family.

4. Which of the following does Aristotle not list as a feeling that comes to be present in the soul?
(a) Longing.
(b) Fear.
(c) Knowledge.
(d) Joy.

5. Which of the following aptly describes virtues and vices in a manner consistent with Aristotle's description?
(a) Predispositions.
(b) Feelings.
(c) Intellectual states.
(d) Active conditions.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Aristotle, what is the mean condition between the vices of wastefulness and stinginess?

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

4. In the opinion of Aristotle, what is the governing and most masterful art under which all others fall, according to I.2?

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

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