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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With what two conditions is courage principally concerned, according to Aristotle?
(a) Knowledge and ignorance.
(b) Fear and confidence.
(c) Cowardice and rage.
(d) Love and hatred.

2. Aristotle says that the magnanimous man cares more for what than for people's opinions?
(a) Money.
(b) Truth.
(c) Fame.
(d) Respect.

3. By doing what, in the opinion of Aristotle, does man make himself a certain sort of person?
(a) Desiring.
(b) Wishing.
(c) Opining.
(d) Choosing.

4. According to the Pythagoreans, the good belongs to what?
(a) The unlimited.
(b) The simple.
(c) The limited.
(d) The complicated.

5. What, in the observations of Aristotle, becomes of a man who is given the power to rule and gives himself more of what is good in itself?
(a) He becomes a tyrant.
(b) He becomes greedy.
(c) He is punished by law.
(d) He is soon killed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sort of person is he who brings food fit for a wedding to a small dinner, according to Aristotle?

2. With what is the second part of the reasoning part of the soul concerned in the view of Aristotle?

3. Aristotle states that as a child needs an instructor, so too do the desiring parts of the soul need what?

4. For the sake of what does Aristotle state the courageous person endures the fearful?

5. Which of the following most accurately describes the behavior of one of the vices Aristotle discusses in IV.6?

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