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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the virtuous disposition most directly concerned, for Aristotle, with playfulness and humor?
(a) Wit.
(b) Charm.
(c) Wisdom.
(d) Pleasantness.

3. For Aristotle, the good of the human person is the activity of the soul in accordance with what?
(a) The free exercise of the will.
(b) The acquisition of power.
(c) The most complete virtue.
(d) Radical autonomy.

4. According to Aristotle, to what degree do the fortunes of one's family and friends likely impact the deceased?
(a) A small degree.
(b) An almost infinite amount.
(c) No amount at all.
(d) A great degree.

5. In addition to the life of pleasure and the life of politics, what is the third sort of life that Aristotle mentions?
(a) The hermetical life.
(b) The life of servitude.
(c) The contemplative life.
(d) The life of rebellion.

Short Answer Questions

1. Living in accordance with virtue can be said to be what, according to Aristotle?

2. Aristotle states that the good of one person is also, to a different degree, the good of what according to I.2?

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

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

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

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