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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many things does Aristotle state there are in the soul that govern action and truth?
(a) Five.
(b) One.
(c) Two.
(d) Three.

2. Which kind of incontinence is least blameless, according to Aristotle's claims in VII.6?
(a) That from spiritedness.
(b) That from desires.
(c) That from scheming.
(d) That from viciousness.

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

4. What does Aristotle claim the lover of self takes for himself?
(a) The things that he finds most pleasurable.
(b) The things that belong to others.
(c) The things that he finds most beautiful.
(d) The things that belong to himself.

5. Aristotle states, in Book VIII, that friendship is a kind of what?
(a) Virtue.
(b) Vice.
(c) Divinity.
(d) Pleasure.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what two conditions is courage principally concerned, according to Aristotle?

2. Aristotle compares the relationship between spiritedness and reason to the relationship between what?

3. What, in the observations of Aristotle, becomes of a man who is given the power to rule and gives himself more of what is good in itself?

4. From Aristotle's perspective, against the yardstick of what do men generally compare their actions?

5. Which two thinkers does Aristotle reference in X.8 concerning the nature of those who are happy?

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