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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the virtuous disposition most directly concerned, for Aristotle, with playfulness and humor?
(a) Charm.
(b) Wit.
(c) Pleasantness.
(d) Wisdom.

3. What is the difficulty Aristotle cites concerning the praise and blame of the moral quality of the actions of others?
(a) Distance from prejudice.
(b) Judging in relation to the mean.
(c) Extrapolation of the truth.
(d) Restraint of the masses.

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

5. In addition to vices of the soul, what other negative condition does Aristotle say comes about willingly in some people, in III.5?
(a) Public indecency.
(b) Corruptions of the community.
(c) Insufficiency of the intellect.
(d) Corruptions of the body.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The attainment of serious moral stature is described by Aristotle in II.9 as being what?

3. With what two conditions is courage principally concerned, according to Aristotle?

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

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

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