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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Aristotle compares the relationship between spiritedness and reason to the relationship between what?
(a) Stone and a house-builder.
(b) A fiesty horse and a poor rider.
(c) A sick patient and a doctor.
(d) A hasty servant and his master.

2. From which of the following does Aristotle say the activities of thinking differ in kind?
(a) Virtues.
(b) Labors.
(c) Perceiving.
(d) Pains.

3. What is the immediate source of action, according to Aristotle in VI.2?
(a) Choice.
(b) Need.
(c) Desire.
(d) Sense.

4. 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.

5. The attainment of serious moral stature is described by Aristotle in II.9 as being what?
(a) Hard work.
(b) Impractical.
(c) Natural.
(d) Almost impossible.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following words least accurately describes the virtue that is the topic of IV.5?

2. What principally occupies the topic of discussion in X.6?

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

4. About what does man deliberate, according to Aristotle in III.3?

5. By human excellence, Aristotle means what?

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