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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do lawmakers make citizens good in the opinion of Aristotle?
(a) By habituating them.
(b) By giving them positive incentives.
(c) By threatening them with punishment.
(d) By informing their intellects.

2. With what is temperance principally concerned in the mind of Aristotle?
(a) Sexual deviance.
(b) Pains.
(c) Pleasures.
(d) Intellectual virtue.

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

4. With which of the following is politics imminently concerned, as described by Aristotle in I.3?
(a) The nature of power.
(b) Foreign affairs.
(c) The codification of law.
(d) The nature of justice.

5. How many virtues does magnanimity require, for Aristotle, in order to be in a person?
(a) Three of them.
(b) None of them.
(c) Most of them.
(d) All of them.

Short Answer Questions

1. From Aristotle's perspective, against the yardstick of what do men generally compare their actions?

2. With what virtue is III.10 concerned?

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

4. According to Aristotle, the highest good must be something that is what?

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

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