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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. The attainment of serious moral stature is described by Aristotle in II.9 as being what?
(a) Hard work.
(b) Almost impossible.
(c) Natural.
(d) Impractical.

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

5. Which of the following does Aristotle not list as a feeling that comes to be present in the soul?
(a) Knowledge.
(b) Longing.
(c) Joy.
(d) Fear.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do lawmakers make citizens good in the opinion of Aristotle?

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

3. Which of the following does Aristotle not list as a theory of that by which happiness comes about?

4. With which of the following is politics imminently concerned, as described by Aristotle in I.3?

5. What is demonstrated, in Aristotle's perspective, by the person who calmly bears misfortunes and sufferings?

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