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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is a suitable category, in Aristotle's view, in which to place the feeling of shame?
(a) Vices.
(b) Virtues.
(c) Feelings.
(d) Conditional values.

4. With what is V.10 concerned?
(a) The distributable.
(b) The equitable.
(c) The oligarchy.
(d) The aristocracy.

5. In addition to the life of pleasure and the life of politics, what is the third sort of life that Aristotle mentions?
(a) The contemplative life.
(b) The life of servitude.
(c) The life of rebellion.
(d) The hermetical life.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many types of justice are discussed in V.4?

3. What do the natural sorts of active conditions of the human person need, by Aristotle's observations, in order to be used for the good?

4. 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?

5. How many powers of the soul does Aristotle claim disclose truth by discursive reasoning?

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