View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What causes a distortion to come about in most people, according to the opinion of Aristotle in III.4?
(a) The action of pleasure.
(b) The activity of the will.
(c) The action of pain.
(d) The inactivity of the mind.

2. What determines, according to Aristotle's arguments in V.8, the justice or injustice of one's actions?
(a) Whether or not it is reciprocated.
(b) Whether or not it deals with the whole person.
(c) Whether or not it is done willingly.
(d) Whether or not it deals with the community.

3. In how many ways are things called courage according to Aristotle in Book Three?
(a) Five.
(b) Ten.
(c) Six.
(d) One.

4. To whom, or what, does Aristotle say the person who commits suicide is being unjust?
(a) The gods.
(b) The city.
(c) Himself.
(d) His teachers.

5. What virtue does Aristotle state is concerned with the same things, and is present in the same things, as friendship?
(a) Magnanimity.
(b) Justice.
(c) Temperance.
(d) Fortitude.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what sort of friendship is VIII.14 concerned?

2. What sort of people does Aristotle state seldom turn up in positions of power?

3. The equitable distribution of justice is a certain kind of what, according to Aristotle?

4. Aristotle states that as a child needs an instructor, so too do the desiring parts of the soul need what?

5. In what period of life does Aristotle state that the friendship of utility most frequently appears?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 251 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample