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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 deficiency of the virtue of courage?
(a) Sloth.
(b) Cowardice.
(c) Gluttony.
(d) Rashness.

2. Deliberation is, for Aristotle, principally about the things to be done by whom?
(a) The state.
(b) The community.
(c) Others.
(d) Oneself.

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

4. Which alone among the virtues seems, for Aristotle, to be someone else's good?
(a) Magnanimity.
(b) Justice.
(c) Temperance.
(d) Courage.

5. At what does every action seem to aim, according to Aristotle?
(a) Another action.
(b) Some profit.
(c) Some good.
(d) Some target.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Aristotle's view, what virtue necessarily accompanies or is within the virtue of magnificence?

3. What extreme is most comparable to the virtue of courage in the opinion of Aristotle?

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

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

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