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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What sort of men, in Aristotle's observations, are most confident in the various situations of war?
(a) The reckless.
(b) The experienced.
(c) The naturally courageous.
(d) The ignorant.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. About what good and aim of politics do people commonly dispute, according to Aristotle?

5. According to Aristotle, what is the mean condition between the vices of wastefulness and stinginess?

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