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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book II, Chapters 12-22.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which view did Aristotle think people in their prime had of money?
(a) An incorrect view.
(b) A view that was mostly correct, but incorrect in some ways.
(c) A correct view.
(d) A view that was mostly incorrect, but correct in some ways.

2. Based on Aristotle's explanation, why was it not possible to be angry at humanity in general?
(a) Because it was impossible for humanity to be unfair in general.
(b) Because it was impossible for humanity to have wronged a single person.
(c) Because it was impossible for a single person to understand any unfairness by humanity.
(d) Because it was impossible for humanity to have incited fear from a single person.

3. According to Aristotle, what was the general difference between enthymemes and examples?
(a) Both enthymemes and examples were just as persuasive.
(b) Enthymemes were more persuasive than examples.
(c) Examples were more persuasive than enthymemes.
(d) Neither enthymemes nor examples were persuasive.

4. Which type of disgraces made shame especially significant in Aristotle's opinion?
(a) Moral.
(b) Financial.
(c) Collective.
(d) Individual.

5. What did Aristotle say could not be considered good?
(a) Something that is instrumental to something else.
(b) Something that is relied upon by something else.
(c) Something that is supplemental to something else.
(d) Something that is dependent on something else.

Short Answer Questions

1. As explained in Book II, Chapter 4, what type of friends were people most likely to choose?

2. How did Aristotle define calmness?

3. What did Aristotle think a high value of life in older people led to?

4. What was another word used for "legal" in Aristotle's discussion of legal rhetoric?

5. As explained by Aristotle in Book II, Chapter 18, what was political argumentation concerned with?

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