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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Aristotle, the highest good must be something that is what?
(a) Difficult to obtain.
(b) Complete.
(c) Incomplete.
(d) Easily obtained.

2. Concerning generosity, Aristotle says what concerning not taking something offered and giving something away?
(a) That not taking something offered is harder.
(b) That giving something away is harder.
(c) That they are equally difficult.
(d) That neither is difficult.

3. What does Aristotle claim is the most frightening thing in III.6?
(a) Old age.
(b) Hell.
(c) Illness.
(d) Death.

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

5. What is the literal prize for boxers, according to Aristotle in III.9?
(a) A seat in the senate.
(b) A crown of leaves.
(c) A golden medal.
(d) A lordship.

Short Answer Questions

1. In contrast to wishing, which is for an end, for what is choosing in Aristotle's philosophical view?

2. With which of the following is politics imminently concerned, as described by Aristotle in I.3?

3. What is a suitable category, in Aristotle's view, in which to place the feeling of shame?

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

5. What determines, according to Aristotle's arguments in V.8, the justice or injustice of one's actions?

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