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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What characterizes the mean condition between the two extremes discussed in IV.7?
(a) Nobility.
(b) Modesty.
(c) Truthfulness.
(d) Cleverness.

2. Aristotle claims that a man is inspired to take more than his due out of which vice?
(a) Greed.
(b) Injustice.
(c) Intemperance.
(d) Lechery.

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

4. How many types of virtue does Aristotle claim exist at the beginning of Book II?
(a) Seven.
(b) Two.
(c) One.
(d) Three.

5. Which sort of political justice is most universal in Aristotle's view?
(a) Conventional.
(b) Empirical.
(c) Contractual.
(d) Natural.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following does Aristotle explicitly claim is better than acting unjustly in V.11?

3. In I.12, Aristotle states that praise belongs properly to what?

4. What is demonstrated, in Aristotle's perspective, by the person who calmly bears misfortunes and sufferings?

5. In contrast to wishing, which is for an end, for what is choosing in Aristotle's philosophical view?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Aristotle mean by saying that every art, inquiry, action, and choice aims at some good?

2. Why does Aristotle say that the things deliberated about are not ends?

3. What is the distinction between the mean in the thing itself and the mean in relation to a man as Aristotle explains it?

4. With what virtuous dispositions are Book IV, Chapters 6-9 concerned?

5. Explain Aristotle's distinction between the good and the apparent good, and those who pursue each, as given in III.4.

6. In what way does Aristotle state that it is impossible for one to do injustice to himself?

7. From what difficulty, according to Aristotle, does the dispute concerning the nature of happiness, as the end of all actions, arise?

8. What is the tripartite distinction in the soul that Aristotle makes in Chapter 13 of the first book?

9. What is the significance of the quasi-virtues mentioned by Aristotle in the last part of II.7?

10. What characterizes Aristotle's distinction between "willing" and "choice"?

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