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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. From Aristotle's perspective, against the yardstick of what do men generally compare their actions?
(a) The archetypal man.
(b) Vice and virtue.
(c) Pleasure and pain.
(d) Truth and falsity.

5. How does Aristotle say the lawmakers ought to treat people who act beautifully?
(a) With contempt.
(b) With lavish praise.
(c) With honor.
(d) With caution.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. At what does every action seem to aim, according to Aristotle?

3. About what good and aim of politics do people commonly dispute, according to Aristotle?

4. For Aristotle, the good of the human person is the activity of the soul in accordance with what?

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

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