View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many powers of the soul does Aristotle claim disclose truth by discursive reasoning?
(a) Five.
(b) Nine.
(c) Two.
(d) Four.

2. What is the immediate source of action, according to Aristotle in VI.2?
(a) Desire.
(b) Sense.
(c) Need.
(d) Choice.

3. With what virtue is III.10 concerned?
(a) Prudence.
(b) Temperance.
(c) Courage.
(d) Magnanimity.

4. What is the difficulty Aristotle cites concerning the praise and blame of the moral quality of the actions of others?
(a) Judging in relation to the mean.
(b) Restraint of the masses.
(c) Extrapolation of the truth.
(d) Distance from prejudice.

5. In Aristotle's view, what virtue necessarily accompanies or is within the virtue of magnificence?
(a) Piety.
(b) Temperance.
(c) Generosity.
(d) Justice.

Short Answer Questions

1. Aristotle claims that a man is inspired to take more than his due out of which vice?

2. Who, in the opinion of Aristotle, is benefited by a stingy person?

3. Which of the following sort of expenditures does Aristotle NOT consider to be honorably magnificent?

4. By their intelligent deliberations, concerning what are those who have practical judgment distinguished from others, according to Aristotle's philosophical inquiry?

5. According to the Pythagoreans, the good belongs to what?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 214 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample