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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sort of person is opposite, in the opinion of Aristotle, the person who is soft?
(a) The virtuous person.
(b) The self-restrained person.
(c) The enduring person.
(d) The continent person.

2. By what is the mean determined, according to Aristotle's analysis in the beginning of Book VI?
(a) Right reason.
(b) Personal choice.
(c) Law.
(d) Fate.

3. From what does being in bad shape come to be evident, according to Aristotle?
(a) What constitutes being in good shape.
(b) How the person acts.
(c) What ends it produces.
(d) What symptoms it displays.

4. Who, in the view of Aristotle, is incapable of having the sort of friendship described in IX.4?
(a) A superior person.
(b) A noble person.
(c) A lustful person.
(d) A base person.

5. What is the impasse Aristotle confronts in IX.8?
(a) Whether one ought to not love himself at all.
(b) Whether one ought to love himself like he loves others.
(c) Whether one should love himself or another the most.
(d) Whether one should love his parents or his wife the most.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many sorts of political justice are there by the count of Aristotle?

2. From Aristotle's perspective, what sort of friendship do complaints and reproaches most frequently arise?

3. With what sort of friendship is VIII.14 concerned?

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

5. What fact does Aristotle point to in support of the hypothesis that living itself is a good?

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