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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which power of the soul does Aristotle describe in VI.11 as being concerned with both the beginning and the end?
(a) Intellect.
(b) Art.
(c) Wisdom.
(d) Practical judgment.

2. What is the immediate source of action, according to Aristotle in VI.2?
(a) Need.
(b) Sense.
(c) Choice.
(d) Desire.

3. Concerning what do Aristotle and Socrates have a disagreement regarding the things that must be avoided that have to do with one's character?
(a) Incontinence.
(b) Animality.
(c) Vice.
(d) Pride.

4. In addition to vices of the soul, what other negative condition does Aristotle say comes about willingly in some people, in III.5?
(a) Corruptions of the community.
(b) Corruptions of the body.
(c) Public indecency.
(d) Insufficiency of the intellect.

5. According to Aristotle, what is the mean condition between the vices of wastefulness and stinginess?
(a) Generosity.
(b) Temperance.
(c) Fortitude.
(d) Prudence.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who, in the opinion of Aristotle, is benefited by a stingy person?

2. Which of the following intellectual virtues does Aristotle say the incontinent person cannot have, at the beginning of VII.10?

3. In Aristotle's view, what virtue necessarily accompanies or is within the virtue of magnificence?

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

5. Which of the powers of the soul that Aristotle claims is used to disclose truth is directed at the sources of truth?

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