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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Aristotle states that the good of one person is also, to a different degree, the good of what according to I.2?
(a) An animal.
(b) Another person.
(c) The city.
(d) The world.

3. What characterizes the mean condition between the two extremes discussed in IV.7?
(a) Cleverness.
(b) Truthfulness.
(c) Modesty.
(d) Nobility.

4. By human excellence, Aristotle means what?
(a) That which belongs to the body.
(b) That which belongs to mankind.
(c) That which belongs to the soul.
(d) That which belongs to the individual.

5. How many types of virtue does Aristotle claim exist at the beginning of Book II?
(a) Seven.
(b) Two.
(c) One.
(d) Three.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Aristotle, to what degree do the fortunes of one's family and friends likely impact the deceased?

2. Aristotle claims that a man is inspired to take more than his due out of which vice?

3. At what does every action seem to aim, according to Aristotle?

4. With what is temperance principally concerned in the mind of Aristotle?

5. Living in accordance with virtue can be said to be what, according to Aristotle?

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