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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where is the source of a willing act located, according to Aristotle?
(a) In oneself.
(b) In one's disposition.
(c) External to oneself.
(d) In one's nature.

3. The irrational part of the soul is said by Aristotle to be how many fold?
(a) Manifold.
(b) Two-fold.
(c) Four-fold.
(d) Three-fold.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what do most people take refuge, according to the theory proposed by Aristotle, rather than perform virtuous acts?

3. For the sake of what does Aristotle state the courageous person endures the fearful?

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

5. About what does man deliberate, according to Aristotle in III.3?

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