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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The attainment of serious moral stature is described by Aristotle in II.9 as being what?
(a) Impractical.
(b) Almost impossible.
(c) Natural.
(d) Hard work.

2. About what does man deliberate, according to Aristotle in III.3?
(a) Things related to the self.
(b) Things related to the end.
(c) Things related to the means.
(d) The ends themselves.

3. How many virtues does magnanimity require, for Aristotle, in order to be in a person?
(a) Three of them.
(b) None of them.
(c) Most of them.
(d) All of them.

4. Who, in the opinion of Aristotle, is benefited by a stingy person?
(a) No one.
(b) Himself.
(c) Everyone.
(d) The rich.

5. According to Aristotle, to what degree do the fortunes of one's family and friends likely impact the deceased?
(a) No amount at all.
(b) A great degree.
(c) A small degree.
(d) An almost infinite amount.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the literal prize for boxers, according to Aristotle in III.9?

2. How many types of virtue does Aristotle claim exist at the beginning of Book II?

3. Aristotle states that the good of one person is also, to a different degree, the good of what according to I.2?

4. How do lawmakers make citizens good in the opinion of Aristotle?

5. In Aristotle's thinking, the function of man is an activity of soul which follows upon or implies the soul's possession of what?

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