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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To whom, or what, does Aristotle say the person who commits suicide is being unjust?
(a) The gods.
(b) The city.
(c) His teachers.
(d) Himself.

2. What is the literal prize for boxers, according to Aristotle in III.9?
(a) A crown of leaves.
(b) A golden medal.
(c) A lordship.
(d) A seat in the senate.

3. Aristotle compares the relationship between spiritedness and reason to the relationship between what?
(a) A fiesty horse and a poor rider.
(b) A hasty servant and his master.
(c) Stone and a house-builder.
(d) A sick patient and a doctor.

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

5. With what is the second part of the reasoning part of the soul concerned in the view of Aristotle?
(a) Things that might be but are not at all.
(b) Things that can never be.
(c) Things that cannot be other than they are.
(d) Things that can be other than they are.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Aristotle's view, what virtue necessarily accompanies or is within the virtue of magnificence?

2. Which of the powers of the soul that Aristotle claims is used to disclose truth is directed at the sources of truth?

3. Who, in the opinion of Aristotle, is benefited by a stingy person?

4. How many types of justice are discussed in V.4?

5. Which power of the soul does Aristotle describe in VI.11 as being concerned with both the beginning and the end?

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