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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the worst person in the community in Aristotle's judgment?
(a) One who uses vice in relation to himself and others.
(b) One who uses vice in relation strictly to others.
(c) One who uses virtue in relation to himself and ignores others.
(d) One who uses vice in relation to himself alone.

2. What did the Pythagoreans say is simply just?
(a) Virtue.
(b) Distribution.
(c) Equity.
(d) Reciprocity.

3. How many virtues does magnanimity require, for Aristotle, in order to be in a person?
(a) None of them.
(b) Three of them.
(c) All of them.
(d) Most of them.

4. In how many ways does Aristotle speak of the mean in II.6?
(a) Four.
(b) Two.
(c) Three.
(d) One.

5. About what does man deliberate, according to Aristotle in III.3?
(a) Things related to the means.
(b) The ends themselves.
(c) Things related to the end.
(d) Things related to the self.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Aristotle states that the good of one person is also, to a different degree, the good of what according to I.2?

3. Which of the following aptly describes virtues and vices in a manner consistent with Aristotle's description?

4. What sort of pleasures are said by Aristotle to not have an excess?

5. Which power of the soul does Aristotle describe in VI.11 as being concerned with both the beginning and the end?

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