Forgot your password?  
| | | | | |
  Sign up for your free account today!  

Nicomachean Ethics | Quiz

Aristotle
This Study Guide consists of approximately 56 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Nicomachean Ethics.

Nicomachean Ethics | Quiz

Students: Take our free Nicomachean Ethics quiz below, with 25 multiple choice questions that help you test your knowledge. Determine which chapters, themes and styles you already know and what you need to study for your upcoming essay, midterm, or final exam. Take the free quiz now!

Teachers: The BookRags Lesson Plan contains hundreds of test and quiz questions, including multiple choice, short answer, and essay questions. Create your own quiz or test with our automatic test generator, or choose from our ready-to-go chapter quizzes, midterm tests, and final exams. Don’t waste time reinventing the wheel, get the Lesson Plan today!

Directions: Click on the correct answer.

1)

Which of the following is NOT characteristic of Aristotle's magnanimous man? (from Book IV)

Lack of wonderment.
A deep voice.
Slowness of movement.
Anxiety.
2)

Aristotle states that food is more pleasant than gold to what? (from Book X)

A wealthy man.
A donkey.
A child.
A philosopher.
3)

From what does being in bad shape come to be evident, according to Aristotle? (from Book V)

What constitutes being in good shape.
What symptoms it displays.
What ends it produces.
How the person acts.
4)

A buffoon is described by Aristotle in IV.8 as someone who goes to extremes in order to make someone else do what? (from Book IV)

Steal.
Cry.
Abjure the gods.
Laugh.
5)

How many sorts of political justice are there by the count of Aristotle? (from Book V)

Six.
Three.
Two.
Four.
6)

Which of the powers of the soul that Aristotle claims is used to disclose truth is directed at the sources of truth? (from Book VI)

Wisdom.
Intellect.
Knowledge.
Practical judgment.
7)

When do people eat snacks the most in theaters, according to Aristotle in X.5? (from Book X)

When there is no dialogue.
When there is a lot of dialogue.
When the actors are good.
When the actors are bad.
8)

Which two thinkers does Aristotle reference in X.8 concerning the nature of those who are happy? (from Book X)

Socrates and Anaximander.
Plato and Empedocles.
Solon and Anaxagoras.
Aeschylus and Parmenides.
9)

Art, in the opinion of Aristotle, is concerned with what, according to VI.4? (from Book VI)

Action.
Chance.
Fate.
Making.
10)

Which alone among the virtues seems, for Aristotle, to be someone else's good? (from Book V)

Magnanimity.
Courage.
Justice.
Temperance.
11)

What virtue does Aristotle state is concerned with the same things, and is present in the same things, as friendship? (from Book VIII)

Temperance.
Fortitude.
Magnanimity.
Justice.
12)

About what, concerning the virtues, might one raise a problem, as Aristotle states in VI.12? (from Book VI)

Their usefulness.
Their complementary nature.
Their veracity.
Their societal fecundity.
13)

What, according to Aristotle in the beginning of V.6, makes an act unjust without necessarily making the person who commits it unjust? (from Book V)

Choice.
Passion.
Coercion.
Deliberation.
14)

What does Aristotle claim the lover of self takes for himself? (from Book IX)

The things that he finds most beautiful.
The things that belong to himself.
The things that belong to others.
The things that he finds most pleasurable.
15)

In what does Aristotle say modern comedy consists, in IV.8? (from Book IV)

Slapstick.
Foul language.
Puns.
Subtlety.
16)

Among what sort of people does Aristotle regard mutual and equal friendships complete in all respects? (from Book VIII)

Virtuous people.
Free people.
Elderly people.
Alike people.
17)

What is the impasse Aristotle confronts in IX.8? (from Book IX)

Whether one should love himself or another the most.
Whether one ought to love himself like he loves others.
Whether one should love his parents or his wife the most.
Whether one ought to not love himself at all.
18)

In what way does Aristotle claim the incontinent person is unlike the vicious? (from Book VII)

The latter is ignorant.
The former is ignorant.
The latter acts through choice.
The former acts through choice.
19)

With what virtue does Aristotle credit Eudoxus in X.2? (from Book X)

Courage.
Temperance.
Justice.
Wisdom.
20)

What two things does Aristotle state are linked together in the beginning of X.8? (from Book X)

Moral virtue and wisdom.
Practical judgment and moral virtue.
Practical judgment and feelings.
Moral virtue and art.
21)

How many powers of the soul does Aristotle claim disclose truth by discursive reasoning? (from Book VI)

Two.
Nine.
Four.
Five.
22)

What sort of pleasures are said by Aristotle to not have an excess? (from Book VII)

Those that involve no pains.
Those that are pleasureful incidentally.
Those that are pleasant to the virtuous.
Those whose contraries are painful.
23)

Which power of the soul does Aristotle describe in VI.11 as being concerned with both the beginning and the end? (from Book VI)

Art.
Practical judgment.
Intellect.
Wisdom.
24)

What does Aristotle, in VIII.5, say causes forgetfulness of friendship? (from Book VIII)

Betrayal.
Old age.
Absence.
Lust.
25)

Which word adequately indicates the character of the man whose vice is in opposition to that of the braggart, according to Aristotle's description? (from Book IV)

Ironic.
Truthful.
Congenial.
Lecherous.
Copyrights
Nicomachean Ethics from BookRags and Gale's For Students Series. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.
Follow Us on Facebook
Homework Help