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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book III.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. By human excellence, Aristotle means what?
(a) That which belongs to the soul.
(b) That which belongs to the individual.
(c) That which belongs to mankind.
(d) That which belongs to the body.
2. Aristotle states that the good of one person is also, to a different degree, the good of what according to I.2?
(a) An animal.
(b) The city.
(c) Another person.
(d) The world.
3. In addition to the life of pleasure and the life of politics, what is the third sort of life that Aristotle mentions?
(a) The life of servitude.
(b) The contemplative life.
(c) The hermetical life.
(d) The life of rebellion.
4. In the opinion of Aristotle, what is the governing and most masterful art under which all others fall, according to I.2?
(a) Ethics.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Philosophy.
(d) Politics.
5. The attainment of serious moral stature is described by Aristotle in II.9 as being what?
(a) Hard work.
(b) Almost impossible.
(c) Natural.
(d) Impractical.
Short Answer Questions
1. At what does every action seem to aim, according to Aristotle?
2. By doing what, in the opinion of Aristotle, does man make himself a certain sort of person?
3. What is the difficulty Aristotle cites concerning the praise and blame of the moral quality of the actions of others?
4. What causes a distortion to come about in most people, according to the opinion of Aristotle in III.4?
5. How many conditions does Aristotle list as necessary for an act to be performed virtuously?
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