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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is demonstrated, in Aristotle's perspective, by the person who calmly bears misfortunes and sufferings?
(a) Something futile.
(b) Something beautiful.
(c) Something hideous.
(d) Something unpredictable.

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

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

5. In Aristotle's view, the sort of virtue which is concerned with pleasures and pains belongs to what?
(a) Divine.
(b) Character.
(c) Thinking.
(d) Communal.

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. By human excellence, Aristotle means what?

3. What vice is, according to Aristotle, in deficiency of the virtue of courage?

4. In how many ways does Aristotle speak of the mean in II.6?

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

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