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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In addition to the life of pleasure and the life of politics, what is the third sort of life that Aristotle mentions?
(a) The life of rebellion.
(b) The hermetical life.
(c) The contemplative life.
(d) The life of servitude.

2. In what does Aristotle say modern comedy consists, in IV.8?
(a) Foul language.
(b) Subtlety.
(c) Puns.
(d) Slapstick.

3. In the opinion of Aristotle, what is the governing and most masterful art under which all others fall, according to I.2?
(a) Politics.
(b) Ethics.
(c) Philosophy.
(d) Poetry.

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

5. Concerning generosity, Aristotle says what concerning not taking something offered and giving something away?
(a) That neither is difficult.
(b) That they are equally difficult.
(c) That giving something away is harder.
(d) That not taking something offered is harder.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many virtues does magnanimity require, for Aristotle, in order to be in a person?

2. For Aristotle, the good of the human person is the activity of the soul in accordance with what?

3. What sort of men, in Aristotle's observations, are most confident in the various situations of war?

4. What is the difficulty Aristotle cites concerning the praise and blame of the moral quality of the actions of others?

5. In I.12, Aristotle states that praise belongs properly to what?

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