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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With what state of man's character is VII.5 concerned?
(a) Animality.
(b) Incontinence.
(c) Vice.
(d) Divinity.

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

3. Deliberation is, for Aristotle, principally about the things to be done by whom?
(a) The community.
(b) Others.
(c) The state.
(d) Oneself.

4. How do lawmakers make citizens good in the opinion of Aristotle?
(a) By threatening them with punishment.
(b) By giving them positive incentives.
(c) By informing their intellects.
(d) By habituating them.

5. Which virtue does Aristotle explicitly claim to be concerned with regarding the sorts of pleasures that concern the incontinent man, in VII.4?
(a) Temperance.
(b) Practical judgment.
(c) Fortitude.
(d) Justice.

Short Answer Questions

1. The attainment of serious moral stature is described by Aristotle in II.9 as being what?

2. What does Aristotle, in VIII.5, say causes forgetfulness of friendship?

3. Aristotle claims that a man is inspired to take more than his due out of which vice?

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

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

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