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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What, in the observations of Aristotle, becomes of a man who is given the power to rule and gives himself more of what is good in itself?
(a) He becomes a tyrant.
(b) He is soon killed.
(c) He becomes greedy.
(d) He is punished by law.

3. Which of the following does Aristotle not list as a theory of that by which happiness comes about?
(a) Biological nature.
(b) Divine providence.
(c) Learning.
(d) Training.

4. What, according to Aristotle in the beginning of V.6, makes an act unjust without necessarily making the person who commits it unjust?
(a) Passion.
(b) Coercion.
(c) Deliberation.
(d) Choice.

5. What is the virtuous disposition most directly concerned, for Aristotle, with playfulness and humor?
(a) Charm.
(b) Pleasantness.
(c) Wisdom.
(d) Wit.

Short Answer Questions

1. What vice is, according to Aristotle, in deficiency of the virtue of courage?

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

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

4. Where is the source of a willing act located, according to Aristotle?

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

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