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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To whom, or what, does Aristotle say the person who commits suicide is being unjust?
(a) The gods.
(b) Himself.
(c) The city.
(d) His teachers.

2. Amongst what age group does Aristotle report observing friendships forming less frequently?
(a) The youth.
(b) The elderly.
(c) Children.
(d) The middle-aged.

3. Where is the source of a willing act located, according to Aristotle?
(a) In one's disposition.
(b) In oneself.
(c) In one's nature.
(d) External to oneself.

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

5. What sort of person is opposite, in the opinion of Aristotle, the person who is soft?
(a) The virtuous person.
(b) The enduring person.
(c) The self-restrained person.
(d) The continent person.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what is the virtue that Aristotle describes in IV.4 concerned?

2. Aristotle compares the relationship between spiritedness and reason to the relationship between what?

3. For the sake of what does Aristotle state the courageous person endures the fearful?

4. In addition to vices of the soul, what other negative condition does Aristotle say comes about willingly in some people, in III.5?

5. In VIII.12, Aristotle states that every sort of friendship is in what?

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