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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. With what is temperance principally concerned in the mind of Aristotle?
(a) Sexual deviance.
(b) Intellectual virtue.
(c) Pleasures.
(d) Pains.

4. What causes a distortion to come about in most people, according to the opinion of Aristotle in III.4?
(a) The inactivity of the mind.
(b) The activity of the will.
(c) The action of pain.
(d) The action of pleasure.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Aristotle, what is the mean condition between the vices of wastefulness and stinginess?

2. With what virtue is III.10 concerned?

3. In the opinion of Aristotle, what is the governing and most masterful art under which all others fall, according to I.2?

4. In how many ways does Aristotle speak of good things in I.6?

5. Which of the following does Aristotle not list as a feeling that comes to be present in the soul?

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