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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do lawmakers make citizens good in the opinion of Aristotle?
(a) By threatening them with punishment.
(b) By habituating them.
(c) By giving them positive incentives.
(d) By informing their intellects.

2. How many types of virtue does Aristotle claim exist at the beginning of Book II?
(a) Two.
(b) One.
(c) Three.
(d) Seven.

3. In how many ways does Aristotle speak of the mean in II.6?
(a) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) Four.
(d) One.

4. According to Aristotle, what is the mean condition between the vices of wastefulness and stinginess?
(a) Prudence.
(b) Generosity.
(c) Temperance.
(d) Fortitude.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. By human excellence, Aristotle means what?

2. What two things does Aristotle define as contraries in II.8?

3. In the opinion of Aristotle, what is the governing and most masterful art under which all others fall, according to I.2?

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

5. Aristotle states in I.6 that it is nobler to give the higher honor to which of the following?

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