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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In Aristotle's view, what virtue necessarily accompanies or is within the virtue of magnificence?
(a) Temperance.
(b) Generosity.
(c) Justice.
(d) Piety.

3. For the sake of what does Aristotle state the courageous person endures the fearful?
(a) Himself.
(b) The beautiful.
(c) The gods.
(d) His family.

4. In how many ways are things called courage according to Aristotle in Book Three?
(a) Ten.
(b) Six.
(c) One.
(d) Five.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. With what two conditions is courage principally concerned, according to Aristotle?

3. About what good and aim of politics do people commonly dispute, according to Aristotle?

4. Which word adequately indicates the character of the man whose vice is in opposition to that of the braggart, according to Aristotle's description?

5. In addition to vices of the soul, what other negative condition does Aristotle say comes about willingly in some people, in III.5?

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