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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many types of justice are discussed in V.4?
(a) Six.
(b) One.
(c) Three.
(d) Two.

2. Living in accordance with virtue can be said to be what, according to Aristotle?
(a) Always difficult.
(b) Almost impossible.
(c) Remarkably easy.
(d) Pleasant in itself.

3. Which power of the soul does Aristotle describe in VI.11 as being concerned with both the beginning and the end?
(a) Intellect.
(b) Art.
(c) Practical judgment.
(d) Wisdom.

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

5. Which of the following intellectual virtues does Aristotle say the incontinent person cannot have, at the beginning of VII.10?
(a) Art.
(b) Practical judgment.
(c) Knowledge.
(d) Intellect.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what does every action seem to aim, according to Aristotle?

2. Who, in the opinion of Aristotle, is benefited by a stingy person?

3. According to Aristotle, what is the mean condition between the vices of wastefulness and stinginess?

4. What is the impasse Aristotle confronts in IX.8?

5. In Aristotle's view, what virtue necessarily accompanies or is within the virtue of magnificence?

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