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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Deliberation, as Aristotle states in VI.9, is a kind of what?
(a) Decision.
(b) Act.
(c) Choice.
(d) Inquiry.

3. According to Aristotle, by what means do particulars, with which practical judgment is concerned, become known?
(a) Intuitions.
(b) Reasonings.
(c) Divinations.
(d) Experiences.

4. How many types of justice are discussed in V.4?
(a) Two.
(b) One.
(c) Six.
(d) Three.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a suitable category, in Aristotle's view, in which to place the feeling of shame?

2. In addition to the life of pleasure and the life of politics, what is the third sort of life that Aristotle mentions?

3. Aristotle compares the relationship between spiritedness and reason to the relationship between what?

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

5. With what is V.10 concerned?

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