Q 01/05

In Aristotle's account of virtue, courage is the mean between cowardice and which vice?

A) Rashness

B) Pride

C) Anger

D) Gluttony

Answer · why

A) Rashness

Rashness: he taught that such virtues grow from habit, as people repeat brave acts until bravery becomes their settled character.

Q 02/05

Which scientist is famously said to have dropped weights from the Leaning Tower of Pisa to disprove Aristotle on falling bodies?

A) Galileo Galilei

B) Isaac Newton

C) Johannes Kepler

D) Nicolaus Copernicus

Answer · why

A) Galileo Galilei

Galileo Galilei's first biographer, Vincenzo Viviani, told the story, but many historians think the drop was only a thought experiment.

Q 03/05

What was the name of the school Aristotle founded in Athens?

A) The Garden

B) The Stoa

C) The Academy

D) The Lyceum

Answer · why

D) The Lyceum

The Lyceum, named for an exercise ground dedicated to Apollo Lykeios, later gave French its word lycée for a state secondary school.

Q 04/05

Aristotle's followers were called Peripatetics, from a Greek word linked to which activity?

A) Walking

B) Debating

C) Chanting

D) Fasting

Answer · why

A) Walking

Walking: the name may come from the school's covered walkway, or from Aristotle's reported habit of teaching while strolling.

Q 05/05

In which city in Chalkidiki, northern Greece, was Aristotle born in 384 BC?

A) Olynthus

B) Stagira

C) Pella

D) Potidaea

Answer · why

B) Stagira

Stagira was razed by Philip II, who reportedly rebuilt it as payment for Aristotle's teaching of his son.