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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The equitable distribution of justice is a certain kind of what, according to Aristotle?
(a) Excess.
(b) Proportion.
(c) Exactness of arithmetic.
(d) Deficiency.

2. About what good and aim of politics do people commonly dispute, according to Aristotle?
(a) Power.
(b) Justice.
(c) Wealth.
(d) Happiness.

3. How many types of virtue does Aristotle claim exist at the beginning of Book II?
(a) Two.
(b) One.
(c) Seven.
(d) Three.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. By doing what, in the opinion of Aristotle, does man make himself a certain sort of person?

3. Which of the following sort of expenditures does Aristotle NOT consider to be honorably magnificent?

4. Aristotle claims that a man is inspired to take more than his due out of which vice?

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

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