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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which kind of incontinence is least blameless, according to Aristotle's claims in VII.6?
(a) That from desires.
(b) That from spiritedness.
(c) That from viciousness.
(d) That from scheming.

2. What sort of person is opposite, in the opinion of Aristotle, the person who is soft?
(a) The virtuous person.
(b) The continent person.
(c) The self-restrained person.
(d) The enduring person.

3. What does the continent person have, by Aristotle's estimation, that the temperate person does not?
(a) Base desires.
(b) Reason.
(c) Ignorance.
(d) Knowledge.

4. By what means, according to Aristotle in V.5, does a community or a city stay together?
(a) Religion.
(b) Exchange.
(c) Slavery.
(d) Housebuilding.

5. What is the virtuous disposition most directly concerned, for Aristotle, with playfulness and humor?
(a) Wisdom.
(b) Charm.
(c) Pleasantness.
(d) Wit.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whose undemonstrated statements and opinions ought people pay attention, according to Aristotle?

2. In Aristotle's view, the sort of virtue which is concerned with pleasures and pains belongs to what?

3. Which of the following does Aristotle not list as a feeling that comes to be present in the soul?

4. With what is the virtue of generosity concerned, according to Aristotle?

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

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