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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For what do praise and blame come about, according to Aristotle in III.1?
(a) Willing actions.
(b) Habits.
(c) Unwilling actions.
(d) Predispositions.

2. In Aristotle's view, the sort of virtue which is concerned with pleasures and pains belongs to what?
(a) Thinking.
(b) Divine.
(c) Character.
(d) Communal.

3. With what is V.10 concerned?
(a) The oligarchy.
(b) The equitable.
(c) The aristocracy.
(d) The distributable.

4. What is a suitable category, in Aristotle's view, in which to place the feeling of shame?
(a) Conditional values.
(b) Feelings.
(c) Virtues.
(d) Vices.

5. The equitable distribution of justice is a certain kind of what, according to Aristotle?
(a) Exactness of arithmetic.
(b) Excess.
(c) Deficiency.
(d) Proportion.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many types of justice are discussed in V.4?

2. From Aristotle's perspective, against the yardstick of what do men generally compare their actions?

3. The attainment of serious moral stature is described by Aristotle in II.9 as being what?

4. Which alone among the virtues seems, for Aristotle, to be someone else's good?

5. Which of the following aptly describes virtues and vices in a manner consistent with Aristotle's description?

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