View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Aristotle say the lawmakers ought to treat people who act beautifully?
(a) With honor.
(b) With lavish praise.
(c) With caution.
(d) With contempt.

3. Who is the source of action, according to Aristotle, of one who acts from spiritedness?
(a) The gods.
(b) Nature.
(c) The actor himself.
(d) The one who angers the actor.

4. Of what two elements does Aristotle determine that wisdom is composed?
(a) Intellect and practical judgment.
(b) Knowledge and intellect.
(c) Practical judgment and knowledge.
(d) Art and intellect.

5. About what does man deliberate, according to Aristotle in III.3?
(a) Things related to the end.
(b) The ends themselves.
(c) Things related to the self.
(d) Things related to the means.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What sort of person is he who brings food fit for a wedding to a small dinner, according to Aristotle?

3. The irrational part of the soul is said by Aristotle to be how many fold?

4. In what way does Aristotle claim the incontinent person is unlike the vicious?

5. What word, by the description of Aristotle, well-describes the person who considers himself worthy of great things, or to be magnanimous, but is not?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 240 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample