Nicomachean Ethics Quiz | Eight Week Quiz A

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Nicomachean Ethics Quiz | Eight Week Quiz A

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the virtuous disposition most directly concerned, for Aristotle, with playfulness and humor?
(a) Pleasantness.
(b) Wit.
(c) Wisdom.
(d) Charm.

2. In I.12, Aristotle states that praise belongs properly to what?
(a) Divinity.
(b) Effort.
(c) Humanity.
(d) Virtue.

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

4. What two things does Aristotle define as contraries in II.8?
(a) The extremes and the mean.
(b) The median and the mean.
(c) The excess and deficiency.
(d) Vice and virtue.

5. From Aristotle's perspective, against the yardstick of what do men generally compare their actions?
(a) Pleasure and pain.
(b) Truth and falsity.
(c) Vice and virtue.
(d) The archetypal man.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what does every action seem to aim, according to Aristotle?

2. Aristotle states in I.6 that it is nobler to give the higher honor to which of the following?

3. For Aristotle, the good of the human person is the activity of the soul in accordance with what?

4. With which of the following is politics imminently concerned, as described by Aristotle in I.3?

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

(see the answer key)

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