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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Aristotle says that the magnanimous man cares more for what than for people's opinions?
(a) Money.
(b) Respect.
(c) Fame.
(d) Truth.

2. With what two conditions is courage principally concerned, according to Aristotle?
(a) Knowledge and ignorance.
(b) Cowardice and rage.
(c) Love and hatred.
(d) Fear and confidence.

3. What causes a distortion to come about in most people, according to the opinion of Aristotle in III.4?
(a) The action of pain.
(b) The inactivity of the mind.
(c) The action of pleasure.
(d) The activity of the will.

4. Which of the following aptly describes virtues and vices in a manner consistent with Aristotle's description?
(a) Feelings.
(b) Intellectual states.
(c) Predispositions.
(d) Active conditions.

5. From Aristotle's perspective, against the yardstick of what do men generally compare their actions?
(a) Truth and falsity.
(b) The archetypal man.
(c) Pleasure and pain.
(d) Vice and virtue.

Short Answer Questions

1. Aristotle states in I.6 that it is nobler to give the higher honor to which of the following?

2. A buffoon is described by Aristotle in IV.8 as someone who goes to extremes in order to make someone else do what?

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

4. In addition to vices of the soul, what other negative condition does Aristotle say comes about willingly in some people, in III.5?

5. According to Aristotle, what is the mean condition between the vices of wastefulness and stinginess?

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