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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) Pains.
(b) Pleasures.
(c) Intellectual virtue.
(d) Sexual deviance.

2. How does Aristotle say the lawmakers ought to treat people who act beautifully?
(a) With honor.
(b) With lavish praise.
(c) With caution.
(d) With contempt.

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

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

5. What vice is, according to Aristotle, in excess of the virtue of courage?
(a) Sloth.
(b) Cowardice.
(c) Rashness.
(d) Gluttony.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following aptly describes virtues and vices in a manner consistent with Aristotle's description?

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

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

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

5. What is the virtuous disposition most directly concerned, for Aristotle, with playfulness and humor?

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