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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is demonstrated, in Aristotle's perspective, by the person who calmly bears misfortunes and sufferings?
(a) Something hideous.
(b) Something futile.
(c) Something beautiful.
(d) Something unpredictable.

2. Living in accordance with virtue can be said to be what, according to Aristotle?
(a) Almost impossible.
(b) Pleasant in itself.
(c) Always difficult.
(d) Remarkably easy.

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

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

5. In I.12, Aristotle states that praise belongs properly to what?
(a) Divinity.
(b) Virtue.
(c) Humanity.
(d) Effort.

Short Answer Questions

1. What vice is, according to Aristotle, in excess of the virtue of courage?

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

3. The attainment of serious moral stature is described by Aristotle in II.9 as being what?

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

5. For Aristotle, the good of the human person is the activity of the soul in accordance with what?

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