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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By human excellence, Aristotle means what?
(a) That which belongs to mankind.
(b) That which belongs to the soul.
(c) That which belongs to the individual.
(d) That which belongs to the body.

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

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

4. Aristotle states in I.6 that it is nobler to give the higher honor to which of the following?
(a) One's self.
(b) One's friends.
(c) The state.
(d) The truth.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How many types of virtue does Aristotle claim exist at the beginning of Book II?

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