Nicomachean Ethics Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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Nicomachean Ethics Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With what is the virtue that Aristotle describes in IV.4 concerned?
(a) Truth.
(b) Honor.
(c) Money.
(d) Justice.

2. By doing what, in the opinion of Aristotle, does man make himself a certain sort of person?
(a) Opining.
(b) Desiring.
(c) Wishing.
(d) Choosing.

3. What did the Pythagoreans say is simply just?
(a) Virtue.
(b) Equity.
(c) Reciprocity.
(d) Distribution.

4. Which of the following is NOT characteristic of Aristotle's magnanimous man?
(a) Lack of wonderment.
(b) Slowness of movement.
(c) A deep voice.
(d) Anxiety.

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

6. By human excellence, Aristotle means what?
(a) That which belongs to the individual.
(b) That which belongs to the soul.
(c) That which belongs to the body.
(d) That which belongs to mankind.

7. With what is temperance principally concerned in the mind of Aristotle?
(a) Sexual deviance.
(b) Pleasures.
(c) Pains.
(d) Intellectual virtue.

8. Aristotle states that as a child needs an instructor, so too do the desiring parts of the soul need what?
(a) A body.
(b) Rest.
(c) Reason.
(d) Freedom.

9. What determines, according to Aristotle's arguments in V.8, the justice or injustice of one's actions?
(a) Whether or not it is done willingly.
(b) Whether or not it deals with the whole person.
(c) Whether or not it is reciprocated.
(d) Whether or not it deals with the community.

10. With which of the following is politics imminently concerned, as described by Aristotle in I.3?
(a) Foreign affairs.
(b) The nature of justice.
(c) The codification of law.
(d) The nature of power.

11. Which of the following does Aristotle explicitly claim is better than acting unjustly in V.11?
(a) Avoiding all injustice.
(b) Suffering injustice.
(c) Justly treating others.
(d) Being treated justly.

12. Which of the following sort of expenditures does Aristotle NOT consider to be honorably magnificent?
(a) Fitting a warship.
(b) Giving a splendid civic feast.
(c) Hosting a private wedding.
(d) Devotion to the gods.

13. For Aristotle, the good of the human person is the activity of the soul in accordance with what?
(a) The most complete virtue.
(b) The acquisition of power.
(c) The free exercise of the will.
(d) Radical autonomy.

14. According to Aristotle, the highest good must be something that is what?
(a) Easily obtained.
(b) Complete.
(c) Incomplete.
(d) Difficult to obtain.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the source of action, according to Aristotle, of one who acts from spiritedness?

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

3. What vice is, according to Aristotle, in excess of the virtue of courage?

4. How many types of justice are discussed in V.4?

5. According to Aristotle, to what degree do the fortunes of one's family and friends likely impact the deceased?

(see the answer keys)

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