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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About what does man deliberate, according to Aristotle in III.3?
(a) Things related to the means.
(b) The ends themselves.
(c) Things related to the self.
(d) Things related to the end.

2. In contrast to wishing, which is for an end, for what is choosing in Aristotle's philosophical view?
(a) Things related to others.
(b) Things related to the means.
(c) Things related to the self.
(d) Things related to the end.

3. How do lawmakers make citizens good in the opinion of Aristotle?
(a) By giving them positive incentives.
(b) By informing their intellects.
(c) By habituating them.
(d) By threatening them with punishment.

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

5. What does Aristotle claim is the most frightening thing in III.6?
(a) Hell.
(b) Death.
(c) Old age.
(d) Illness.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many conditions does Aristotle list as necessary for an act to be performed virtuously?

2. In addition to the life of pleasure and the life of politics, what is the third sort of life that Aristotle mentions?

3. By human excellence, Aristotle means what?

4. What characterizes the mean condition between the two extremes discussed in IV.7?

5. A buffoon is described by Aristotle in IV.8 as someone who goes to extremes in order to make someone else do what?

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