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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In how many ways does Aristotle speak of good things in I.6?
(a) Two.
(b) Five.
(c) One.
(d) Six.

2. With what two conditions is courage principally concerned, according to Aristotle?
(a) Knowledge and ignorance.
(b) Love and hatred.
(c) Cowardice and rage.
(d) Fear and confidence.

3. In I.12, Aristotle states that praise belongs properly to what?
(a) Humanity.
(b) Divinity.
(c) Effort.
(d) Virtue.

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

5. In Aristotle's view, the sort of virtue which is concerned with pleasures and pains belongs to what?
(a) Thinking.
(b) Communal.
(c) Character.
(d) Divine.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What sort of men, in Aristotle's observations, are most confident in the various situations of war?

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