View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Concerning generosity, Aristotle says what concerning not taking something offered and giving something away?
(a) That they are equally difficult.
(b) That not taking something offered is harder.
(c) That giving something away is harder.
(d) That neither is difficult.

2. In how many ways does Aristotle speak of good things in I.6?
(a) Two.
(b) Five.
(c) One.
(d) Six.

3. What is a suitable category, in Aristotle's view, in which to place the feeling of shame?
(a) Feelings.
(b) Virtues.
(c) Vices.
(d) Conditional values.

4. What, in the observations of Aristotle, becomes of a man who is given the power to rule and gives himself more of what is good in itself?
(a) He becomes a tyrant.
(b) He becomes greedy.
(c) He is soon killed.
(d) He is punished by law.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In contrast to wishing, which is for an end, for what is choosing in Aristotle's philosophical view?

2. In I.12, Aristotle states that praise belongs properly to what?

3. What sort of men, in Aristotle's observations, are most confident in the various situations of war?

4. By doing what, in the opinion of Aristotle, does man make himself a certain sort of person?

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

(see the answer key)

This section contains 276 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample