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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In I.12, Aristotle states that praise belongs properly to what?
(a) Virtue.
(b) Effort.
(c) Divinity.
(d) Humanity.

2. What is a suitable category, in Aristotle's view, in which to place the feeling of shame?
(a) Vices.
(b) Feelings.
(c) Conditional values.
(d) Virtues.

3. What word, by the description of Aristotle, well-describes the person who considers himself worthy of great things, or to be magnanimous, but is not?
(a) Vulgar.
(b) High-minded.
(c) Proud.
(d) Vain.

4. With what virtue is III.10 concerned?
(a) Courage.
(b) Prudence.
(c) Magnanimity.
(d) Temperance.

5. Which word adequately indicates the character of the man whose vice is in opposition to that of the braggart, according to Aristotle's description?
(a) Ironic.
(b) Truthful.
(c) Congenial.
(d) Lecherous.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what do most people take refuge, according to the theory proposed by Aristotle, rather than perform virtuous acts?

2. According to the Pythagoreans, the good belongs to what?

3. In Aristotle's view, the sort of virtue which is concerned with pleasures and pains belongs to what?

4. About what does man deliberate, according to Aristotle in III.3?

5. By doing what, in the opinion of Aristotle, does man make himself a certain sort of person?

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