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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many sorts of political justice are there by the count of Aristotle?
(a) Four.
(b) Three.
(c) Two.
(d) Six.

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

3. Aristotle claims that a man is inspired to take more than his due out of which vice?
(a) Injustice.
(b) Lechery.
(c) Greed.
(d) Intemperance.

4. How many things does Aristotle state there are in the soul that govern action and truth?
(a) One.
(b) Two.
(c) Three.
(d) Five.

5. With what is the second part of the reasoning part of the soul concerned in the view of Aristotle?
(a) Things that might be but are not at all.
(b) Things that can be other than they are.
(c) Things that can never be.
(d) Things that cannot be other than they are.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sort of people does Aristotle state seldom turn up in positions of power?

2. What, according to Aristotle in the beginning of V.6, makes an act unjust without necessarily making the person who commits it unjust?

3. Art, in the opinion of Aristotle, is concerned with what, according to VI.4?

4. Concerning generosity, Aristotle says what concerning not taking something offered and giving something away?

5. According to Aristotle, what is the mean condition between the vices of wastefulness and stinginess?

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