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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What vice is, according to Aristotle, in excess of the virtue of courage?
(a) Sloth.
(b) Gluttony.
(c) Cowardice.
(d) Rashness.

2. With what is the virtue that Aristotle describes in IV.4 concerned?
(a) Justice.
(b) Honor.
(c) Money.
(d) Truth.

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

4. Who, in the opinion of Aristotle, is benefited by a stingy person?
(a) Himself.
(b) Everyone.
(c) No one.
(d) The rich.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. For the sake of what does Aristotle state the courageous person endures the fearful?

2. In how many ways does Aristotle speak of the mean in II.6?

3. From what does being in bad shape come to be evident, according to Aristotle?

4. What characterizes the mean condition between the two extremes discussed in IV.7?

5. In what way does Aristotle claim the incontinent person is unlike the vicious?

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