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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT one of the things that must be avoided, having to do with one's character, according to Aristotle's claims in the beginning of VII.1?
(a) Pride.
(b) Vice.
(c) Animality.
(d) Incontinence.

2. What determines the proper level of affection that one ought to give another, according to Aristotle?
(a) Equality.
(b) Proportion.
(c) Temperance.
(d) Love.

3. How do lawmakers make citizens good in the opinion of Aristotle?
(a) By giving them positive incentives.
(b) By informing their intellects.
(c) By habituating them.
(d) By threatening them with punishment.

4. Aristotle states that as a child needs an instructor, so too do the desiring parts of the soul need what?
(a) A body.
(b) Reason.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Rest.

5. By human excellence, Aristotle means what?
(a) That which belongs to the soul.
(b) That which belongs to the individual.
(c) That which belongs to the body.
(d) That which belongs to mankind.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what is the virtue of generosity concerned, according to Aristotle?

2. In Aristotle's view, the sort of virtue which is concerned with pleasures and pains belongs to what?

3. Whom does Aristotle cite as saying that those who claim that favor-doers are more loving than favor-receivers say so from a debased point of view?

4. By what is the mean determined, according to Aristotle's analysis in the beginning of Book VI?

5. What sort of relationship does Aristotle claim is impossible for people who do not have the quality mentioned at the beginning of IX.5?

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