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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sort of person is he who brings food fit for a wedding to a small dinner, according to Aristotle?
(a) Irrational.
(b) Vulgar.
(c) Magnificent.
(d) Generous.

2. According to the Pythagoreans, the good belongs to what?
(a) The complicated.
(b) The simple.
(c) The unlimited.
(d) The limited.

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

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

5. By what means, according to Aristotle in V.5, does a community or a city stay together?
(a) Religion.
(b) Exchange.
(c) Slavery.
(d) Housebuilding.

Short Answer Questions

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

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?

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

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

5. The irrational part of the soul is said by Aristotle to be how many fold?

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