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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What vice is, according to Aristotle, in excess of the virtue of courage?
(a) Gluttony.
(b) Sloth.
(c) Cowardice.
(d) Rashness.

2. Aristotle states that the good of one person is also, to a different degree, the good of what according to I.2?
(a) Another person.
(b) The city.
(c) The world.
(d) An animal.

3. Which of the following does Aristotle not list as a theory of that by which happiness comes about?
(a) Training.
(b) Divine providence.
(c) Learning.
(d) Biological nature.

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

5. In how many ways does Aristotle speak of good things in I.6?
(a) Six.
(b) Five.
(c) One.
(d) Two.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the Pythagoreans, the good belongs to what?

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

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

5. At what does every action seem to aim, according to Aristotle?

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