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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To whom does man look concerning things good and bad, as stated by Aristotle in VII.11?
(a) The lawyer.
(b) The rhetorician.
(c) The politician.
(d) The philosopher.

2. What is the impasse Aristotle confronts in IX.8?
(a) Whether one should love his parents or his wife the most.
(b) Whether one ought to love himself like he loves others.
(c) Whether one ought to not love himself at all.
(d) Whether one should love himself or another the most.

3. With what state of man's character is VII.5 concerned?
(a) Divinity.
(b) Vice.
(c) Incontinence.
(d) Animality.

4. Aristotle states that one suffers injustice willingly in what situation?
(a) In no situation.
(b) In situations of sacrifice.
(c) In situations of judgment.
(d) In situations of poverty.

5. Which of the following does Aristotle not list as a theory of that by which happiness comes about?
(a) Learning.
(b) Divine providence.
(c) Training.
(d) Biological nature.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what sort of artists does Aristotle draw a comparison concerning the incontinent?

2. What sort of rule is opposite to that of a just monarch, according to the observations of Aristotle?

3. About what does man deliberate, according to Aristotle in III.3?

4. What characterizes the mean condition between the two extremes discussed in IV.7?

5. In the loving of what does Aristotle state there is no reciprocity, in VIII.2?

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