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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For Aristotle, the good of the human person is the activity of the soul in accordance with what?
(a) The free exercise of the will.
(b) The most complete virtue.
(c) The acquisition of power.
(d) Radical autonomy.

2. About what good and aim of politics do people commonly dispute, according to Aristotle?
(a) Wealth.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Justice.
(d) Power.

3. In addition to the life of pleasure and the life of politics, what is the third sort of life that Aristotle mentions?
(a) The life of servitude.
(b) The contemplative life.
(c) The life of rebellion.
(d) The hermetical life.

4. How do lawmakers make citizens good in the opinion of Aristotle?
(a) By habituating them.
(b) By informing their intellects.
(c) By threatening them with punishment.
(d) By giving them positive incentives.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. By human excellence, Aristotle means what?

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

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

4. Which of the following does Aristotle not list as a feeling that comes to be present in the soul?

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

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