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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sort of pleasures are said by Aristotle to not have an excess?
(a) Those whose contraries are painful.
(b) Those that are pleasant to the virtuous.
(c) Those that are pleasureful incidentally.
(d) Those that involve no pains.

2. By what is the mean determined, according to Aristotle's analysis in the beginning of Book VI?
(a) Fate.
(b) Law.
(c) Personal choice.
(d) Right reason.

3. What two things does Aristotle state are linked together in the beginning of X.8?
(a) Moral virtue and wisdom.
(b) Moral virtue and art.
(c) Practical judgment and feelings.
(d) Practical judgment and moral virtue.

4. What fact does Aristotle point to in support of the hypothesis that living itself is a good?
(a) That all men desire to live.
(b) That without life there can be no other goods.
(c) That the best things are living.
(d) That good men desire good things.

5. Aristotle states that food is more pleasant than gold to what?
(a) A child.
(b) A donkey.
(c) A philosopher.
(d) A wealthy man.

Short Answer Questions

1. What two forces does Aristotle claim determine the strength of an obligation to another person, in a situation where there is a conflict, according to IX.2?

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

3. Whom does Aristotle reference as taking in payment whatever his student desired to pay for the knowledge he would learn?

4. How many kinds of things does Aristotle say there are that must be avoided, having to do with one's character?

5. Living in accordance with virtue can be said to be what, according to Aristotle?

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