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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) Effort.
(b) Virtue.
(c) Divinity.
(d) Humanity.

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

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

4. 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) Reason.
(b) Temperance.
(c) Love.
(d) Money.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the difficulty Aristotle cites concerning the praise and blame of the moral quality of the actions of others?

2. The irrational part of the soul is said by Aristotle to be how many fold?

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

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

5. What extreme is most comparable to the virtue of courage in the opinion of Aristotle?

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