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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Aristotle, the highest good must be something that is what?
(a) Incomplete.
(b) Complete.
(c) Difficult to obtain.
(d) Easily obtained.

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

3. For the sake of what does Aristotle state the courageous person endures the fearful?
(a) The beautiful.
(b) The gods.
(c) His family.
(d) Himself.

4. Aristotle states in I.6 that it is nobler to give the higher honor to which of the following?
(a) The truth.
(b) The state.
(c) One's friends.
(d) One's self.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following aptly describes virtues and vices in a manner consistent with Aristotle's description?

2. Which sort of political justice is most universal in Aristotle's view?

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

4. About what does man deliberate, according to Aristotle in III.3?

5. Which virtue does Aristotle explicitly claim to be concerned with regarding the sorts of pleasures that concern the incontinent man, in VII.4?

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