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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In addition to the life of pleasure and the life of politics, what is the third sort of life that Aristotle mentions?
(a) The contemplative life.
(b) The hermetical life.
(c) The life of servitude.
(d) The life of rebellion.

2. How many conditions does Aristotle list as necessary for an act to be performed virtuously?
(a) One.
(b) Twelve.
(c) Three.
(d) Five.

3. In I.12, Aristotle states that praise belongs properly to what?
(a) Virtue.
(b) Humanity.
(c) Effort.
(d) Divinity.

4. What extreme is most comparable to the virtue of courage in the opinion of Aristotle?
(a) Cowardice.
(b) Indignation.
(c) Rashness.
(d) Confidence.

5. In how many ways does Aristotle speak of good things in I.6?
(a) Six.
(b) Two.
(c) Five.
(d) One.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What vice is, according to Aristotle, in excess of the virtue of courage?

3. What is demonstrated, in Aristotle's perspective, by the person who calmly bears misfortunes and sufferings?

4. The irrational part of the soul is said by Aristotle to be how many fold?

5. What two things does Aristotle define as contraries in II.8?

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