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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sort of men, in Aristotle's observations, are most confident in the various situations of war?
(a) The naturally courageous.
(b) The experienced.
(c) The reckless.
(d) The ignorant.

2. By their intelligent deliberations, concerning what are those who have practical judgment distinguished from others, according to Aristotle's philosophical inquiry?
(a) Avoiding problems.
(b) Acquiring power.
(c) Making money.
(d) Living well.

3. What sort of person is opposite, in the opinion of Aristotle, the person who is soft?
(a) The continent person.
(b) The self-restrained person.
(c) The virtuous person.
(d) The enduring person.

4. Which of the following sort of expenditures does Aristotle NOT consider to be honorably magnificent?
(a) Devotion to the gods.
(b) Giving a splendid civic feast.
(c) Fitting a warship.
(d) Hosting a private wedding.

5. What sort of pleasures are said by Aristotle to not have an excess?
(a) Those whose contraries are painful.
(b) Those that involve no pains.
(c) Those that are pleasureful incidentally.
(d) Those that are pleasant to the virtuous.

Short Answer Questions

1. From Aristotle's perspective, what sort of friendship do complaints and reproaches most frequently arise?

2. About what good and aim of politics do people commonly dispute, according to Aristotle?

3. What did the Pythagoreans say is simply just?

4. With what is temperance principally concerned in the mind of Aristotle?

5. To whose undemonstrated statements and opinions ought people pay attention, according to Aristotle?

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