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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With which of the following is politics imminently concerned, as described by Aristotle in I.3?
(a) The nature of justice.
(b) Foreign affairs.
(c) The codification of law.
(d) The nature of power.

2. Where is the source of a willing act located, according to Aristotle?
(a) In one's nature.
(b) External to oneself.
(c) In one's disposition.
(d) In oneself.

3. What sort of person is he who brings food fit for a wedding to a small dinner, according to Aristotle?
(a) Irrational.
(b) Vulgar.
(c) Generous.
(d) Magnificent.

4. By what means, according to Aristotle in V.5, does a community or a city stay together?
(a) Religion.
(b) Housebuilding.
(c) Slavery.
(d) Exchange.

5. Art, in the opinion of Aristotle, is concerned with what, according to VI.4?
(a) Making.
(b) Action.
(c) Fate.
(d) Chance.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Aristotle's thinking, the function of man is an activity of soul which follows upon or implies the soul's possession of what?

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

3. Which kind of incontinence is least blameless, according to Aristotle's claims in VII.6?

4. Aristotle notes that each political constitution involves friendship to the same degree that it involves what?

5. What is the virtuous disposition most directly concerned, for Aristotle, with playfulness and humor?

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