Nicomachean Ethics Quiz | Eight Week Quiz D

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Nicomachean Ethics Quiz | Eight Week Quiz D

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Aristotle, what is the mean condition between the vices of wastefulness and stinginess?
(a) Temperance.
(b) Fortitude.
(c) Prudence.
(d) Generosity.

2. With what is temperance principally concerned in the mind of Aristotle?
(a) Pains.
(b) Pleasures.
(c) Intellectual virtue.
(d) Sexual deviance.

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

4. According to Aristotle, to what degree do the fortunes of one's family and friends likely impact the deceased?
(a) An almost infinite amount.
(b) A small degree.
(c) A great degree.
(d) No amount at all.

5. Which of the following words least accurately describes the virtue that is the topic of IV.5?
(a) Mildness.
(b) Good temper.
(c) Passivity.
(d) Gentleness.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom, or what, does Aristotle say the person who commits suicide is being unjust?

2. What two things does Aristotle define as contraries in II.8?

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

4. What determines, according to Aristotle's arguments in V.8, the justice or injustice of one's actions?

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

(see the answer key)

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