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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For the sake of what does Aristotle state the courageous person endures the fearful?
(a) The gods.
(b) His family.
(c) Himself.
(d) The beautiful.

2. 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) Money.
(c) Reason.
(d) Love.

3. In I.12, Aristotle states that praise belongs properly to what?
(a) Virtue.
(b) Effort.
(c) Divinity.
(d) Humanity.

4. Aristotle states that the good of one person is also, to a different degree, the good of what according to I.2?
(a) Another person.
(b) An animal.
(c) The world.
(d) The city.

5. What causes a distortion to come about in most people, according to the opinion of Aristotle in III.4?
(a) The action of pain.
(b) The action of pleasure.
(c) The activity of the will.
(d) The inactivity of the mind.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In addition to the life of pleasure and the life of politics, what is the third sort of life that Aristotle mentions?

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

4. In contrast to wishing, which is for an end, for what is choosing in Aristotle's philosophical view?

5. How many conditions does Aristotle list as necessary for an act to be performed virtuously?

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