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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the immediate source of action, according to Aristotle in VI.2?
(a) Desire.
(b) Need.
(c) Choice.
(d) Sense.

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

3. How many powers of the soul does Aristotle claim disclose truth by discursive reasoning?
(a) Four.
(b) Two.
(c) Five.
(d) Nine.

4. With which of the following conditions does Aristotle compare the incontinent person in VII.10?
(a) Insanity.
(b) Drunkenness.
(c) Animality.
(d) Bloodlust.

5. Aristotle claims that a man is inspired to take more than his due out of which vice?
(a) Injustice.
(b) Greed.
(c) Intemperance.
(d) Lechery.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what sort of living environment does Aristotle say the human being is meant in IX.9?

2. Among what sort of people does Aristotle regard mutual and equal friendships complete in all respects?

3. What is the virtuous disposition most directly concerned, for Aristotle, with playfulness and humor?

4. In addition to the life of pleasure and the life of politics, what is the third sort of life that Aristotle mentions?

5. With what virtue does Aristotle credit Eudoxus in X.2?

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