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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Deliberation is, for Aristotle, principally about the things to be done by whom?
(a) Others.
(b) Oneself.
(c) The community.
(d) The state.

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

3. With what is the virtue that Aristotle describes in IV.4 concerned?
(a) Truth.
(b) Honor.
(c) Money.
(d) Justice.

4. Which of the following most accurately describes the behavior of one of the vices Aristotle discusses in IV.6?
(a) Incoherent.
(b) Obdurate.
(c) Violent.
(d) Obsequious.

5. Who is the worst person in the community in Aristotle's judgment?
(a) One who uses vice in relation to himself alone.
(b) One who uses vice in relation strictly to others.
(c) One who uses virtue in relation to himself and ignores others.
(d) One who uses vice in relation to himself and others.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Aristotle claim is the most frightening thing in III.6?

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

3. Which of the following words least accurately describes the virtue that is the topic of IV.5?

4. By human excellence, Aristotle means what?

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

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