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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Aristotle say one must do in addition to knowing virtue?
(a) Contemplate virtue.
(b) Instruct others in virtue.
(c) Engage in discourse concerning virtue.
(d) Perform virtue.

2. For what does Aristotle blame people when it comes to money, honor, victory, and gain?
(a) Condemning those who seek them.
(b) Desiring them in any way.
(c) Desiring them to excess.
(d) Feigning interest in their acquisition.

3. In what status of life is having good friends considered beautiful by Aristotle in IX.11?
(a) Diurnal proceedings.
(b) Good fortune.
(c) Bad fortune.
(d) Unusual circumstances.

4. With what sort of friendship is VIII.14 concerned?
(a) Virtuous friendships.
(b) Equal friendships.
(c) Familial friendships.
(d) Unequal friendships.

5. From what does being in bad shape come to be evident, according to Aristotle?
(a) What constitutes being in good shape.
(b) How the person acts.
(c) What ends it produces.
(d) What symptoms it displays.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which kind of incontinence is least blameless, according to Aristotle's claims in VII.6?

2. Whom does Aristotle cite as saying that those who claim that favor-doers are more loving than favor-receivers say so from a debased point of view?

3. Which of the following does Aristotle not list as a theory of that by which happiness comes about?

4. Which two thinkers does Aristotle reference in X.8 concerning the nature of those who are happy?

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

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