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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following intellectual virtues does Aristotle say the incontinent person cannot have, at the beginning of VII.10?
(a) Practical judgment.
(b) Intellect.
(c) Art.
(d) Knowledge.

2. Words that concern things such as feelings and actions are less believable than what, according to Aristotle?
(a) Feelings themselves.
(b) Words concerning being.
(c) Words concerning judgments.
(d) Actions themselves.

3. What is the literal prize for boxers, according to Aristotle in III.9?
(a) A lordship.
(b) A crown of leaves.
(c) A golden medal.
(d) A seat in the senate.

4. Which of the powers of the soul that Aristotle claims is used to disclose truth is directed at the sources of truth?
(a) Intellect.
(b) Practical judgment.
(c) Knowledge.
(d) Wisdom.

5. What principally occupies the topic of discussion in X.6?
(a) Recreation.
(b) Thinking.
(c) Work.
(d) Idleness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the virtuous disposition most directly concerned, for Aristotle, with playfulness and humor?

2. In Aristotle's view, what virtue necessarily accompanies or is within the virtue of magnificence?

3. Aristotle states, in Book VIII, that friendship is a kind of what?

4. Who is the source of action, according to Aristotle, of one who acts from spiritedness?

5. What does Aristotle, in VIII.5, say causes forgetfulness of friendship?

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