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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who, in the opinion of Aristotle, is benefited by a stingy person?
(a) Himself.
(b) No one.
(c) The rich.
(d) Everyone.

2. What is the difficulty Aristotle cites concerning the praise and blame of the moral quality of the actions of others?
(a) Distance from prejudice.
(b) Extrapolation of the truth.
(c) Restraint of the masses.
(d) Judging in relation to the mean.

3. Which of the following words least accurately describes the virtue that is the topic of IV.5?
(a) Gentleness.
(b) Passivity.
(c) Good temper.
(d) Mildness.

4. Concerning generosity, Aristotle says what concerning not taking something offered and giving something away?
(a) That neither is difficult.
(b) That they are equally difficult.
(c) That giving something away is harder.
(d) That not taking something offered is harder.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the worst person in the community in Aristotle's judgment?

2. What does Aristotle say one must do in addition to knowing virtue?

3. While in the throes of true friendship, Aristotle states at the end of Book IX that one has the same relationship with a friend as he does with whom?

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

5. Which power of the soul does Aristotle describe in VI.11 as being concerned with both the beginning and the end?

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