How many children did Aristotle have?
1.One
2.Two
3.Three
4.Four
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In Book XII of the Metaphysics how many kinds of substances are there?
1.One
2.Two
3.Three
4.Four
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Nicomachus was the name of which of Aristotle s relations?
1.Father
2.Son
3.Father and son
4.Brother
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What is the Greek word for representation; as used in the Poetics?
1.Mimesis
2.Katharsis
3.Hamartia
4.Graticus
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What is the term for the consideration of natural ends in explaining phenomena?
1.Tautology
2.Ontology
3.Teleology
4.Epistemology
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What is the ultimate form of association?
1.Friendship
2.Family
3.Village
4.City-state
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Where did Aristotle perform his early biology research?
1.Assos
2.Athens
3.Mitylene
4.Stagira
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Which book is not one of the four main treatises on natural science?
1.Protrepticus
2.Physics
3.On the Heavens
4.Meteorology
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Which friend of Aristotle died after being tortured for information by the Persians?
1.Xenocrates
2.Hermeias
3.Eudemus
4.Speusippus
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Which is not a reason that Aristotle thought that women were unfinished men ?
1.Women are passive and receptive
2.Women only contribute substance
3. Children receive only male characteristics
4. Women have little appreciation for the arts and sciences
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Which of the following is concerned with existence itself?
1. Epistemology
2. Psychology
3.Natural science
4.Metaphysics
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Why did Aristotle write dialogues early in his career?
1. They were the best way to convey information
2. No one else was writing straightforward treatises
3.He was interested in the exchange process rather than the doctrine itself
4.He was following Plato s model
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In which capacity did Callisthenes serve under Alexander?
1.Physician
2.Historian
3.General
4.Regent
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In which year was Aristotle invited to tutor Alexander?
1.345 B.C.
2.344 B.C.
3.343 B.C.
4.342 B.C.
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On which work of Plato s is Eudemus largely based?
1.The Republic
2.Symposium
3.Phaedo
4.Gorgias
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The Poetics deals primarily with what genre?
1.Epic
2.Comedy
3.Tragedy
4.Lyric Poetry
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What are the two imperishable entities?
1.Motion and space
2.Space and time
3.Motion and time
4.Fire and water
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What is the final cause of rainfall according to Aristotle?
1. It rains so plants and creatures can survive
2.It rains because it is water s nature to fall
3.It rains because there is moisture in the air
4.It rains because moisture cools
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What is the term for an argument used in rhetoric that could be reduced logically to a syllogism?
1.Metonymy
2.Syneedoche
3.Enthymeme
4.Heuristic
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What was the name of Aristotle s father which he used to name one of his works?
1.Eudemeus
2.Nicomachus
3.Eudoxus
4.Phillipius
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What was the name of the school that Aristotle established in a grove sacred to Apollo?
1.Lyceum
2.Gymnasium
3.Academy
4.Alcemium
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Which of Aristotle s early works was inspired by the death of a friend?
1. Physics
2. Philosophy
3.Eudemus
4.Protrepticus
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Which of the following is not an important Aristotelian work?
1.Physics
2.Poetics
3.Rhetoric
4.Psychology
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Which of the following is one of the two central distinctions Aristotle draws between animals?
1.Viviparous and oviparous
2. Herbivorous and carnivorous
3.Sexual and asexual
4.Aerobic and anaerobic
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Which of the following was not a form of soul in Aristotle s work On the Soul ?
1.Rational
2.Subconscious
3.Animal
4.Vegetative
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Which state ruled Greece for most of Aristotle s adult life?
1.Athens
2.Thebes
3.Macedonia
4.Sparta
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According to Aristotle which pair of words is analogous to matter ::form?
1.Essence :: being
2.Susstance :: substrate
3. Potentiality :: actuality
4.Cause :: effect
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Aristotle is considered the founder of what?
1. Modern Biology
2. Modern Physics
3.Modern Chemistry
4.Modern Anatomy
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For which subject is Aristotle least known?
1.Biology
2.Logic
3.Mathematics
4.Psychology
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How does one acquire virtue according to Aristotle?
1.It is innate
2. By habit
3.By grace
4.By accident
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How many times did Aristotle marry?
1.0
2.1
3.2
4.3
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In what Macedonian village was Aristotle born?
1.Sparta
2.Stagira
3.Athens
4.None of these
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In which year Aristotle died?
1.322 B.C.
2.321 B.C.
3.320 B.C.
4. 318 B.C.
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Psychology as Aristotle understood it means the study of what element?
1. The soul
2.The brain
3. The heart
4.The body
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The earliest writings of Aristotle cover what subject?
1.Astronomy
2. Philosophy
3.Physics
4.Biology
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The Unmoved Mover must be which of the following?
1.Eternal
2.Actively evolved in human affairs
3.Infinite in size
4.Endowed with knowledge of good and evil
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The work we call physics is more properly described as what?
1.Natural science
2.Chemistry
3.Biology
4.Metaphysics
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To where did Aristotle withdraw after Alexander s death?
1.Stagira
2.Macedonia
3.Athens
4.Chalcis
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What are the two imperishable entities?
1.Motion and space
2.Space and time
3.Mtion and time
4. Fire and water
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What caused the break between Aristotle and Alexander?
1.Alexander s failure to restore Aristotle s native home
2.Alexander s failure to support Aristotle s research
3.Alexander s attitude toward the Persians
4. Alexander s treatment of Thebes
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What did Aristotle refer to metaphysics as?
1. Natural philosophy
2.First philosophy
3. Epistemology
4.Teleology
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What did Aristotle see as the sentral tension in ethical decisions?
1.Continence
2.Desire
3.Ignorance
4.Complacence
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What famous individual who taught Aristotle?
1.Socrates
2.Plato
3.Euclid
4.St. Augustine
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What is the most basic kind of soul?
1. Nutritive
2. Sensitive
3.Imaginative
4. Cognitive
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What is the primary form of association?
1.Friendship
2.Family
3.Village
4.City-state
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What two works are considered preliminary to Aristotle s logical treatises?
1.Categories and Philosophy
2.Protrepticus and Philosophy
3.Categories and On interpretation
4.Protrepticus and On interpretation
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What was Aristotle s attitude toward slavery?
1.He disapproved strongly
2.He disapproved reluctantly
3. He considered it to be against nature
4.He considered it to be natural
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What was the favorite example that Aristotle returned to repeatedly in the Poetics?
1.Oedipus
2.Antigone
3.Odyssey
4.Gorgias
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What was the name of Aristotle s guardian after his parents death?
1.Nicomachus
2.Hermeias
3.Proxenus
4.Xenocrates
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What was the occupation of Aristotle s father?
1.Physician
2.Philosopher
3.General
4.Chemist
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What were members of Aristotle s Lyceum known as?
1.Rationalists
2.Skeptics
3.Cynics
4.Peripatetics
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Where was Aristotle born?
1.Thebes
2.Athens
3.Stagira
4.Corinth
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Where was Aristotle born?
1.Stagira
2.Athens
3.Thebes
4.Macedonia
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Which Academy colleague left with Aristotle after Plato s death and accompanied him in some of his travels?
1.Xenocrates
2.Antipater
3.Pixodarus
4.Hermeias
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Which book is often criticized for being disorganized?
1.Politics
2.Ethics
3.Poetics
4.Rhetoric
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Which did Aristotle see as the central tension in ethical decisions?
1.Continence
2.Desire
3.Ignorance
4.Complacence
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Which is not one of the categories of Aristotle s ponderance?
1.Logic
2.An Immortal Soul
3.Women
4.Ethics
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Which is not one of the Four Causes?
1.Origin
2.Motivation
3.Pattern
4.End
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Which nephew of Aristotle was executed by Alexander?
1.Hermeias
2.Callisthenes
3.Xenocrates
4.Speusippus
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Which of the following biological topics did Aristotle not examine in detail?
1. Distinction between monocotyledons and dicotyledons
2. Anatomy of the stomachs of ruminants
3.Habits and development of octopuses and squids
4.Chick embryology
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Which of the following terms means government by the few?
1.Aristocracy
2.Oligarchy
3.Timocracy
4.Patriarchy
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Which of the following was not excluded from citizenship in the Politics?
1.Slaves
2.Children
3.Resident aliens
4.The clergy
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Which one is the nephew of Aristotle?
1.Hermeias
2.Callisthenes
3.Xenocrates
4.Speusippus
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Who assumed leadership of the Academy after Plato s death?
1.Hermeias
2.Xenocrates
3.Eudemus
4.Speusippus
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Whose niece did Aristotle marry?
1.Callisthenes
2.Hermeias s
3.Alexander s
4.Plato s
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