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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) The extremes and the mean.
(c) The median and the mean.
(d) Vice and virtue.

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

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. 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) Temperance.
(b) Reason.
(c) Money.
(d) Love.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. By human excellence, Aristotle means what?

2. How do lawmakers make citizens good in the opinion of Aristotle?

3. With which of the following is politics imminently concerned, as described by Aristotle in I.3?

4. What causes a distortion to come about in most people, according to the opinion of Aristotle in III.4?

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

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