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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Aristotle, the highest good must be something that is what?
(a) Difficult to obtain.
(b) Complete.
(c) Easily obtained.
(d) Incomplete.

2. What two things does Aristotle define as contraries in II.8?
(a) The extremes and the mean.
(b) Vice and virtue.
(c) The median and the mean.
(d) The excess and deficiency.

3. According to the Pythagoreans, the good belongs to what?
(a) The complicated.
(b) The simple.
(c) The unlimited.
(d) The limited.

4. Aristotle states that the good of one person is also, to a different degree, the good of what according to I.2?
(a) The city.
(b) An animal.
(c) The world.
(d) Another person.

5. Which of the following does Aristotle not list as a theory of that by which happiness comes about?
(a) Learning.
(b) Divine providence.
(c) Training.
(d) Biological nature.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In how many ways does Aristotle speak of the mean in II.6?

4. According to Aristotle, to what degree do the fortunes of one's family and friends likely impact the deceased?

5. The irrational part of the soul is said by Aristotle to be how many fold?

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