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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what do most people take refuge, according to the theory proposed by Aristotle, rather than perform virtuous acts?
(a) Vice.
(b) Pleasure.
(c) Talk.
(d) Philosophy.

2. Which word adequately indicates the character of the man whose vice is in opposition to that of the braggart, according to Aristotle's description?
(a) Ironic.
(b) Lecherous.
(c) Truthful.
(d) Congenial.

3. At what does every action seem to aim, according to Aristotle?
(a) Some profit.
(b) Some target.
(c) Some good.
(d) Another action.

4. With what is the virtue of generosity concerned, according to Aristotle?
(a) Possessions.
(b) Fame.
(c) Time.
(d) Money.

5. In addition to vices of the soul, what other negative condition does Aristotle say comes about willingly in some people, in III.5?
(a) Corruptions of the community.
(b) Public indecency.
(c) Corruptions of the body.
(d) Insufficiency of the intellect.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Aristotle's view, what virtue necessarily accompanies or is within the virtue of magnificence?

2. What word, by the description of Aristotle, well-describes the person who considers himself worthy of great things, or to be magnanimous, but is not?

3. Deliberation is, for Aristotle, principally about the things to be done by whom?

4. What, according to Aristotle in the beginning of V.6, makes an act unjust without necessarily making the person who commits it unjust?

5. 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?

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