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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what way does Aristotle claim the incontinent person is unlike the vicious?
(a) The former is ignorant.
(b) The former acts through choice.
(c) The latter is ignorant.
(d) The latter acts through choice.

2. To whose undemonstrated statements and opinions ought people pay attention, according to Aristotle?
(a) The quick-witted and youthful.
(b) The experienced and elderly.
(c) The wise and powerful.
(d) The teachers of the youth.

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

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

5. About what does man deliberate, according to Aristotle in III.3?
(a) Things related to the means.
(b) Things related to the self.
(c) The ends themselves.
(d) Things related to the end.

Short Answer Questions

1. What vice is, according to Aristotle, in deficiency of the virtue of courage?

2. With what is temperance principally concerned in the mind of Aristotle?

3. What determines, according to Aristotle's arguments in V.8, the justice or injustice of one's actions?

4. How many senses of the word "good" does Aristotle discuss in VII.12?

5. What is the virtuous disposition most directly concerned, for Aristotle, with playfulness and humor?

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