SparkNotes: Aristotle: Review Test

1. The Poetics deals primarily with what genre?

(A) Epic

(B) Comedy

(C) Tragedy

(D) Lyric Poetry

2. What is the term for the consideration of natural ends in explaining phenomena?

(A) Tautology

(B) Ontology

(C) Teleology

(D) Epistemology

3. The work we call Physics is more properly described as what?

(A) Natural science

(B) Chemistry

(C) Biology

(D) Metaphysics

4. What is the term for an argument used in rhetoric that could be reduced logically to a syllogism?

(A) Metonymy

(B) Synecdoche

(C) Enthymeme

(D) Heuristic

5. What was the favorite example that Aristotle returned to repeatedly in the Poetics?

(A) Oedipus

(B) Antigone

(C) Odyssey

(D) Gorgias

6. According to Aristotle, which of the following is not one of the six elements of the tragedy?

(A) Plot

(B) Reversal

(C) Character

(D) Spectacle

7. Which of Aristotle's early works was inspired by the death of a friend?

(A) Physics

(B) Philosophy

(C) Eudemus

(D) Protrepticus

8. In what capacity did Callisthenes serve under Alexander?

(A) Physician

(B) Historian

(C) General

(D) Regent

9. Which Academy colleague left with Aristotle after Plato's death and accompanied him in some of his travels?

(A) Xenocrates

(B) Antipater

(C) Pixodarus

(D) Hermeias

10. Which of the following was not excluded from citizenship in the Politics?

(A) Slaves

(B) Children

(C) Resident aliens

(D) The clergy

11. Whose niece did Aristotle marry?

(A) Callisthenes'

(B) Hermeias's

(C) Alexander's

(D) Plato's

12. Who assumed leadership of the Academy after Plato's death?

(A) Hermeias

(B) Xenocrates

(C) Eudemus

(D) Speusippus

13. Which is not one of the Four Causes?

(A) Origin

(B) Motivation

(C) Pattern

(D) End

14. For which subject is Aristotle least known?

(A) Biology

(B) Logic

(C) Mathematics

(D) Psychology

15. Psychologyn as Aristotle understood itn meant the study of what element?

(A) The soul

(B) The brain

(C) The heart

(D) The body

16. What is the most basic kind of soul?

(A) Nutritive

(B) Sensitive

(C) Imaginative

(D) Cognitive

17. What did Aristotle refer to metaphysics as?

(A) Natural philosophy

(B) First philosophy

(C) Epistemology

(D) Teleology

18. According to Aristotle, which pair of words is analogous to matter::form?

(A) Essence::being

(B) Substance::Substrate

(C) Potentiality::actuality

(D) Cause::Effect

19. In the pursuit of happiness, what is the highest form of pleasure for a human being, according to Aristotle?

(A) Companionship

(B) Love

(C) Philanthropy

(D) Contemplation

20. How does one acquire virtue, according to Aristotle?

(A) It is innate

(B) By habit

(C) By grace

(D) By accident

21. What is the primary form of association?

(A) Friendship

(B) Family

(C) Village

(D) City-state

22. What is the ultimate form of association?

(A) Friendship

(B) Family

(C) Village

(D) City-state

23. What was Aristotle's attitude toward slavery?

(A) He disapproved strongly

(B) He disapproved reluctantly

(C) He considered it to be against nature

(D) He considered it to be natural

24. Which of the following terms means government by the few?

(A) Aristocracy

(B) Oligarchy

(C) Timocracy

(D) Patriarchy

25. What was the occupation of Aristotle's father?

(A) Physician

(B) Philosopher

(C) General

(D) Chemist

26. Where did Aristotle perform his early biology research?

(A) Assos

(B) Athens

(C) Mitylene

(D) Stagira

27. What caused the break between Aristotle and Alexander?

(A) Alexander's failure to restore Aristotle's native home

(B) Alexander's failure to support Aristotle's research

(C) Alexander's attitude toward the Persians

(D) Alexander's treatment of Thebes

28. To where did Aristotle withdraw after Alexander's death?

(A) Stagira

(B) Macedonia

(C) Athens

(D) Chalcis

29. Where was Aristotle born?

(A) Stagira

(B) Athens

(C) Thebes

(D) Macedonia

30. Which book is often criticized for being disorganized?

(A) Politics

(B) Ethics

(C) Poetics

(D) Rhetoric

31. What was the name of Aristotle's guardian after his parents' death?

(A) Nicomachus

(B) Hermeias

(C) Proxenus

(D) Xenocrates

32. Which state ruled Greece for most of Aristotle's adult life?

(A) Athens

(B) Thebes

(C) Macedonia

(D) Sparta

33. Why did Aristotle write dialogues early in his career?

(A) They were the best way to convey information

(B) No one else was writing straightforward treatises

(C) He was interested in the exchange process rather than the doctrine itself

(D) He was following Plato's model

34. How many children did Aristotle have?

(A) one

(B) two

(C) three

(D) four

35. On which work of Plato's is Eudemus largely based?

(A) The Republic

(B) Symposium

(C) Phaedo

(D) Gorgias

36. What friend of Aristotle died after being tortured for information by the Persians?

(A) Xenocrates

(B) Hermeias

(C) Eudemus

(D) Speusippus

37. What were members of Aristotle's Lyceum known as?

(A) Rationalists

(B) Skeptics

(C) Cynics

(D) Peripatetics

38. What two works are considered preliminary to Aristotle's logical treatises?

(A) Categories and Philosophy

(B) Protrepticus and Philosophy

(C) Categories and On Interpretation

(D) Protrepticus and On Interpretation

39. Which book is not one of the four main treatises on natural science?

(A) Protrepticus

(B) Physics

(C) On the Heavens

(D) Meteorology

40. Which of the following is one of the two central distinctions Aristotle draws between animals?

(A) Viviparous and oviparous

(B) Herbivorous and carnivorous

(C) Sexual and asexual

(D) Aerobic and anaerobic

41. Which of the following is concerned with existence itself?

(A) Epistemology

(B) Psychology

(C) Natural science

(D) Metaphysics

42. In Book XII of the Metaphysics, how many kinds of substances are there?

(A) one

(B) two

(C) three

(D) four

43. What are the two imperishable entities?

(A) Motion and space

(B) Space and time

(C) Motion and time

(D) Fire and water

44. The Unmoved Mover must be which of the following?

(A) Eternal

(B) Actively evolved in human affairs

(C) Infinite in size

(D) Endowed with knowledge of good and evil

45. What is the Greek word for representation, as used in the Poetics?

(A) Mimesis

(B) Katharsis

(C) Hamartia

(D) Graticus

46. In what year was Aristotle invited to tutor Alexander?

(A) 345 B.C.

(B) 344 B.C.

(C) 343 B.C.

(D) 342 B.C.

47. How many times did Aristotle marry?

(A) 0

(B) one

(C) two

(D) three

48. Nicomachus was the name of which of Aristotle's relations?

(A) Father

(B) Son

(C) Father and son

(D) Brother

49. What did Aristotle see as the central tension in ethical decisions?

(A) Continence

(B) Ignorance

(C) Desire

(D) Complacence

50. What nephew of Aristotle was executed by Alexander?

(A) Hermeias

(B) Callisthenes

(C) Xenocrates

(D) Speusippus

51. In what year did Aristotle die?

(A) 322 B.C.

(B) 321 B.C.

(C) 320 B.C.

(D) 319 B.C.