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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, to what degree do the fortunes of one's family and friends likely impact the deceased?
(a) A small degree.
(b) A great degree.
(c) An almost infinite amount.
(d) No amount at all.

2. Deliberation is, for Aristotle, principally about the things to be done by whom?
(a) The community.
(b) The state.
(c) Others.
(d) Oneself.

3. What extreme is most comparable to the virtue of courage in the opinion of Aristotle?
(a) Rashness.
(b) Indignation.
(c) Confidence.
(d) Cowardice.

4. In what do most people take refuge, according to the theory proposed by Aristotle, rather than perform virtuous acts?
(a) Philosophy.
(b) Pleasure.
(c) Vice.
(d) Talk.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. By doing what, in the opinion of Aristotle, does man make himself a certain sort of person?

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

3. With what is temperance principally concerned in the mind of Aristotle?

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

5. In how many ways does Aristotle speak of the mean in II.6?

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