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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The attainment of serious moral stature is described by Aristotle in II.9 as being what?
(a) Hard work.
(b) Impractical.
(c) Natural.
(d) Almost impossible.

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

4. 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 ignorant.
(d) The reckless.

5. What two things does Aristotle define as contraries in II.8?
(a) The extremes and the mean.
(b) The median and the mean.
(c) The excess and deficiency.
(d) Vice and virtue.

Short Answer Questions

1. Deliberation is, for Aristotle, principally about the things to be done by whom?

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

3. How many types of virtue does Aristotle claim exist at the beginning of Book II?

4. Which of the following words least accurately describes the virtue that is the topic of IV.5?

5. What extreme is most comparable to the virtue of courage in the opinion of Aristotle?

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