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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is the source of action, according to Aristotle, of one who acts from spiritedness?
(a) The gods.
(b) Nature.
(c) The actor himself.
(d) The one who angers the actor.

3. What extreme is most comparable to the virtue of courage in the opinion of Aristotle?
(a) Cowardice.
(b) Indignation.
(c) Confidence.
(d) Rashness.

4. In how many ways does Aristotle speak of the mean in II.6?
(a) Four.
(b) One.
(c) Three.
(d) Two.

5. Who, in the opinion of Aristotle, is benefited by a stingy person?
(a) The rich.
(b) Everyone.
(c) Himself.
(d) No one.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what does Aristotle say modern comedy consists, in IV.8?

2. Which of the following does Aristotle not list as a theory of that by which happiness comes about?

3. With what is the virtue that Aristotle describes in IV.4 concerned?

4. Which sort of political justice is most universal in Aristotle's view?

5. Aristotle states that as a child needs an instructor, so too do the desiring parts of the soul need what?

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