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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Aristotle's view, the sort of virtue which is concerned with pleasures and pains belongs to what?
(a) Divine.
(b) Thinking.
(c) Communal.
(d) Character.

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

3. In what do most people take refuge, according to the theory proposed by Aristotle, rather than perform virtuous acts?
(a) Philosophy.
(b) Pleasure.
(c) Vice.
(d) Talk.

4. Aristotle says that the magnanimous man cares more for what than for people's opinions?
(a) Money.
(b) Respect.
(c) Truth.
(d) Fame.

5. Which word adequately indicates the character of the man whose vice is in opposition to that of the braggart, according to Aristotle's description?
(a) Ironic.
(b) Lecherous.
(c) Truthful.
(d) Congenial.

Short Answer Questions

1. With which of the following is politics imminently concerned, as described by Aristotle in I.3?

2. In what does Aristotle say modern comedy consists, in IV.8?

3. What word, by the description of Aristotle, well-describes the person who considers himself worthy of great things, or to be magnanimous, but is not?

4. In contrast to wishing, which is for an end, for what is choosing in Aristotle's philosophical view?

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

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