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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In addition to vices of the soul, what other negative condition does Aristotle say comes about willingly in some people, in III.5?
(a) Insufficiency of the intellect.
(b) Corruptions of the community.
(c) Public indecency.
(d) Corruptions of the body.

2. At what does every action seem to aim, according to Aristotle?
(a) Some good.
(b) Another action.
(c) Some profit.
(d) Some target.

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

4. By doing what, in the opinion of Aristotle, does man make himself a certain sort of person?
(a) Wishing.
(b) Desiring.
(c) Opining.
(d) Choosing.

5. For Aristotle, the good of the human person is the activity of the soul in accordance with what?
(a) The most complete virtue.
(b) The free exercise of the will.
(c) The acquisition of power.
(d) Radical autonomy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Aristotle states in I.6 that it is nobler to give the higher honor to which of the following?

2. Aristotle states that as a child needs an instructor, so too do the desiring parts of the soul need what?

3. In addition to the life of pleasure and the life of politics, what is the third sort of life that Aristotle mentions?

4. For the sake of what does Aristotle state the courageous person endures the fearful?

5. Which of the following does Aristotle not list as a feeling that comes to be present in the soul?

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