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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What is demonstrated, in Aristotle's perspective, by the person who calmly bears misfortunes and sufferings?
(a) Something beautiful.
(b) Something unpredictable.
(c) Something futile.
(d) Something hideous.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what do most people take refuge, according to the theory proposed by Aristotle, rather than perform virtuous acts?

2. About what does man deliberate, according to Aristotle in III.3?

3. The attainment of serious moral stature is described by Aristotle in II.9 as being what?

4. According to Aristotle, the highest good must be something that is what?

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

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