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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With what is temperance principally concerned in the mind of Aristotle?
(a) Sexual deviance.
(b) Pains.
(c) Intellectual virtue.
(d) Pleasures.

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

3. With what virtue is III.10 concerned?
(a) Courage.
(b) Temperance.
(c) Prudence.
(d) Magnanimity.

4. With what two conditions is courage principally concerned, according to Aristotle?
(a) Knowledge and ignorance.
(b) Love and hatred.
(c) Cowardice and rage.
(d) Fear and confidence.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes a distortion to come about in most people, according to the opinion of Aristotle in III.4?

2. In I.12, Aristotle states that praise belongs properly to what?

3. What does Aristotle claim is the most frightening thing in III.6?

4. How does Aristotle say the lawmakers ought to treat people who act beautifully?

5. In how many ways does Aristotle speak of good things in I.6?

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