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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 hideous.
(b) Something futile.
(c) Something unpredictable.
(d) Something 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) Reason.
(b) Money.
(c) Temperance.
(d) Love.

3. For what do praise and blame come about, according to Aristotle in III.1?
(a) Predispositions.
(b) Unwilling actions.
(c) Willing actions.
(d) Habits.

4. Living in accordance with virtue can be said to be what, according to Aristotle?
(a) Always difficult.
(b) Remarkably easy.
(c) Pleasant in itself.
(d) Almost impossible.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In addition to vices of the soul, what other negative condition does Aristotle say comes about willingly in some people, in III.5?

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

3. In Aristotle's view, the sort of virtue which is concerned with pleasures and pains belongs to what?

4. What vice is, according to Aristotle, in deficiency of the virtue of courage?

5. How many types of virtue does Aristotle claim exist at the beginning of Book II?

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