View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With the beginnings of what consideration does Aristotle end the Ethics?
(a) Political states.
(b) Metaphysics.
(c) The human soul.
(d) Virtuous men.

2. What does Aristotle state is akin to friendship in the beginning of IX.5?
(a) Sound reason.
(b) Familial relationships.
(c) Goodwill.
(d) Love.

3. What determines the proper level of affection that one ought to give another, according to Aristotle?
(a) Temperance.
(b) Equality.
(c) Love.
(d) Proportion.

4. What does Aristotle, in VIII.5, say causes forgetfulness of friendship?
(a) Lust.
(b) Old age.
(c) Betrayal.
(d) Absence.

5. What two things does Aristotle state are linked together in the beginning of X.8?
(a) Practical judgment and feelings.
(b) Moral virtue and wisdom.
(c) Moral virtue and art.
(d) Practical judgment and moral virtue.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does man look concerning things good and bad, as stated by Aristotle in VII.11?

2. Aristotle states in X.4 that a change of place is what?

3. What sort of rule is opposite to that of a just monarch, according to the observations of Aristotle?

4. Aristotle states that food is more pleasant than gold to what?

5. What two forces does Aristotle claim determine the strength of an obligation to another person, in a situation where there is a conflict, according to IX.2?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is it difficult, in the opinion of Aristotle, for a person to have many close and virtuous friends?

2. What is the Aristotelian relationship between happiness, the gods, human beings, and animals, as discussed in X.8?

3. Why does Aristotle state that words concerning feelings and actions are less believable than actions themselves?

4. Why do friendships of utility quickly come about and subsequently dissolve, according to Aristotle?

5. What is the essential unity that Aristotle claims between knowledge and action in the person possessed of practical judgment?

6. Give an example of something affirmed by knowledge, as that which cannot be otherwise than it is.

7. Explain the distinction, and its significance, between Socrates and Aristotle on the relationship between knowledge and moral action.

8. Why is it said by Aristotle that the lesser types of friendship are called friendship only insofar as they resemble the highest?

9. Through the possession of what virtue, according to Aristotle, is man said to have possession of all the intellectual virtues, at least to some degree, and why?

10. In what way does Aristotle agree with Socrates concerning knowledge and moral action?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 989 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample