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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Aristotle, by what means do particulars, with which practical judgment is concerned, become known?
(a) Intuitions.
(b) Experiences.
(c) Reasonings.
(d) Divinations.

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

3. Aristotle notes that each political constitution involves friendship to the same degree that it involves what?
(a) Benevolence.
(b) Truth.
(c) Justice.
(d) Trust.

4. For what do praise and blame come about, according to Aristotle in III.1?
(a) Habits.
(b) Predispositions.
(c) Unwilling actions.
(d) Willing actions.

5. From Aristotle's perspective, against the yardstick of what do men generally compare their actions?
(a) Truth and falsity.
(b) Pleasure and pain.
(c) Vice and virtue.
(d) The archetypal man.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many virtues does magnanimity require, for Aristotle, in order to be in a person?

2. By what is the mean determined, according to Aristotle's analysis in the beginning of Book VI?

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

4. What did the Pythagoreans say is simply just?

5. In VIII.12, Aristotle states that every sort of friendship is in what?

(see the answer key)

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