View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What extreme is most comparable to the virtue of courage in the opinion of Aristotle?
(a) Confidence.
(b) Indignation.
(c) Rashness.
(d) Cowardice.

2. How many types of virtue does Aristotle claim exist at the beginning of Book II?
(a) Two.
(b) One.
(c) Three.
(d) Seven.

3. Which of the following does Aristotle not list as a feeling that comes to be present in the soul?
(a) Longing.
(b) Fear.
(c) Joy.
(d) Knowledge.

4. In addition to the life of pleasure and the life of politics, what is the third sort of life that Aristotle mentions?
(a) The life of servitude.
(b) The contemplative life.
(c) The life of rebellion.
(d) The hermetical life.

5. At what does every action seem to aim, according to Aristotle?
(a) Some profit.
(b) Another action.
(c) Some target.
(d) Some good.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what do most people take refuge, according to the theory proposed by Aristotle, rather than perform virtuous acts?

2. In the opinion of Aristotle, what is the governing and most masterful art under which all others fall, according to I.2?

3. According to Aristotle, what is the mean condition between the vices of wastefulness and stinginess?

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

5. In how many ways does Aristotle speak of good things in I.6?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 233 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample