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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. About what does man deliberate, according to Aristotle in III.3?
(a) The ends themselves.
(b) Things related to the means.
(c) Things related to the end.
(d) Things related to the self.

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

5. How many types of virtue does Aristotle claim exist at the beginning of Book II?
(a) Seven.
(b) Three.
(c) One.
(d) Two.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. From Aristotle's perspective, against the yardstick of what do men generally compare their actions?

5. In addition to vices of the soul, what other negative condition does Aristotle say comes about willingly in some people, in III.5?

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