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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 habituating them.
(b) By informing their intellects.
(c) By giving them positive incentives.
(d) By threatening them with punishment.

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?
(a) Temperance.
(b) Money.
(c) Reason.
(d) Love.

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

4. What extreme is most comparable to the virtue of courage in the opinion of Aristotle?
(a) Rashness.
(b) Confidence.
(c) Indignation.
(d) Cowardice.

5. How many conditions does Aristotle list as necessary for an act to be performed virtuously?
(a) Twelve.
(b) Five.
(c) Three.
(d) One.

Short Answer Questions

1. In addition to the life of pleasure and the life of politics, what is the third sort of life that Aristotle mentions?

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

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

4. By human excellence, Aristotle means what?

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

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