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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 unpredictable.
(b) Something beautiful.
(c) Something hideous.
(d) Something futile.

2. According to Aristotle, the highest good must be something that is what?
(a) Difficult to obtain.
(b) Complete.
(c) Easily obtained.
(d) Incomplete.

3. 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) Money.
(b) Love.
(c) Temperance.
(d) Reason.

4. 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 body.
(c) Insufficiency of the intellect.
(d) Corruptions of the community.

5. Aristotle states in I.6 that it is nobler to give the higher honor to which of the following?
(a) The truth.
(b) One's self.
(c) One's friends.
(d) The state.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What two things does Aristotle define as contraries in II.8?

3. By human excellence, Aristotle means what?

4. With which of the following is politics imminently concerned, as described by Aristotle in I.3?

5. How do lawmakers make citizens good in the opinion of Aristotle?

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