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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Aristotle, what is the mean condition between the vices of wastefulness and stinginess?
(a) Generosity.
(b) Fortitude.
(c) Prudence.
(d) Temperance.

2. The attainment of serious moral stature is described by Aristotle in II.9 as being what?
(a) Almost impossible.
(b) Hard work.
(c) Impractical.
(d) Natural.

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

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) Insufficiency of the intellect.
(b) Corruptions of the community.
(c) Public indecency.
(d) Corruptions of the body.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is demonstrated, in Aristotle's perspective, by the person who calmly bears misfortunes and sufferings?

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

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

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

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