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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What vice is, according to Aristotle, in deficiency of the virtue of courage?
(a) Rashness.
(b) Cowardice.
(c) Sloth.
(d) Gluttony.

2. In contrast to wishing, which is for an end, for what is choosing in Aristotle's philosophical view?
(a) Things related to the end.
(b) Things related to others.
(c) Things related to the means.
(d) Things related to the self.

3. Which virtue does Aristotle explicitly claim to be concerned with regarding the sorts of pleasures that concern the incontinent man, in VII.4?
(a) Justice.
(b) Practical judgment.
(c) Temperance.
(d) Fortitude.

4. With what state of man's character is VII.5 concerned?
(a) Animality.
(b) Vice.
(c) Divinity.
(d) Incontinence.

5. For what sort of living environment does Aristotle say the human being is meant in IX.9?
(a) Nomadic.
(b) Urban.
(c) Suburban.
(d) Rural.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what sort of friendship is VIII.12 concerned?

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

3. In what does Aristotle say modern comedy consists, in IV.8?

4. How many virtues does magnanimity require, for Aristotle, in order to be in a person?

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

(see the answer key)

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