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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. To whom does man look concerning things good and bad, as stated by Aristotle in VII.11?
(a) The politician.
(b) The lawyer.
(c) The rhetorician.
(d) The philosopher.

3. What is the difficulty Aristotle cites concerning the praise and blame of the moral quality of the actions of others?
(a) Distance from prejudice.
(b) Judging in relation to the mean.
(c) Extrapolation of the truth.
(d) Restraint of the masses.

4. With what virtue is III.10 concerned?
(a) Magnanimity.
(b) Courage.
(c) Temperance.
(d) Prudence.

5. In how many ways are things called courage according to Aristotle in Book Three?
(a) Six.
(b) One.
(c) Ten.
(d) Five.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Aristotle, what is the mean condition between the vices of wastefulness and stinginess?

2. What is the immediate source of action, according to Aristotle in VI.2?

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

4. What determines the proper level of affection that one ought to give another, according to Aristotle?

5. A buffoon is described by Aristotle in IV.8 as someone who goes to extremes in order to make someone else do what?

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