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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Which of the following sort of expenditures does Aristotle NOT consider to be honorably magnificent?
(a) Devotion to the gods.
(b) Hosting a private wedding.
(c) Giving a splendid civic feast.
(d) Fitting a warship.

5. What characterizes the mean condition between the two extremes discussed in IV.7?
(a) Truthfulness.
(b) Modesty.
(c) Nobility.
(d) Cleverness.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Which of the following does Aristotle not list as a theory of that by which happiness comes about?

4. For the sake of what does Aristotle state the courageous person endures the fearful?

5. By human excellence, Aristotle means what?

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