Deck 12: Happiness

Question 1

___ Greek philosopher who became a slave as well as a teacher in Rome.

Answer 1

11

Question 2

____ 1. According to Aristotle's theory, happiness is not measured moment by moment.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

___ "One who is wise and good."

Answer 3

13

Question 4

___ personal happiness attained by serenity through meditation

Question 5

___ He and fellow prisoners did a dance of joy when they realized they were headed "only" to Dachau.

Question 6

___ True happiness is a matter of how we respond to what happens

Question 7

Place the appropriate number next to the item that most closely matches it, using none more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. hedonism
2. Becket
3. Epicurus
4. Frankl
5. Velazquez
6. virtue
7. Marvell
8. MacLeish
9. epicureans
10. Bacchus
11. Epictetus
12. Vonnegut
13. Mahatma
14. Hinayana
15. endurance
16. Socrates
17. stoicism
18. Hemingway
19. Aristotle
___ Poet who thought Andrew Marvell had the wrong slant on what constitutes happiness.

Question 8

___ John Donne's sermon inspired the title of this author's novel.

Question 9

____ 2. Stoa was a Roman captured by the Greeks, who became a tutor to Plato.

Question 10

___ "not possible to live pleasantly without living prudently"

Question 11

____ 3. For hedonists, pleasure has to be experienced through the senses alone.

Question 12

____ 5. "Too much of a good thing can be wonderful" could well be spoken by an epicurean.

Question 13

___ Christian martyr.

Question 14

___ Aristotle believed the two qualities that assured us of having a happy life were this and wisdom.

Question 15

____ 4. Carpe diem is an important element in hedonism.

Question 16

___ believed that government must not stand in the way of reason

Question 17

___ carpe diem

Question 18

___ "Had we but world enough and time"

Question 19

___ thought that if you didn't choose the good, you really didn't know it.

Question 20

___ "great soul"

Question 21

All of the following are stoic comments except one:

A) Happiness is a matter of how we respond to events.
B) To find the roots of unhappiness, look inward.
C) Individuals, if they have strength and will, can change the inevitable.
D) Nothing is under our control except attitudes.
E) If people are unhappy, it's their own fault.

Question 22

____ 11. Hemingway's story "In Another Country" expresses the epicurean philosophy.

Question 23

____ 10. Because stoicism was almost the national philosophy of Rome, no stoics could be executed.

Question 24

____ 15. In The Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle lists the things that make life good.

Question 25

Although Gandhi and King died for their beliefs, theirs were happy lives according to which standards?

A) epicurean
B) Aristotelian
C) hedonistic
D) economic
E) none of these

Question 26

____ 6. Gandhi was assassinated after he converted to Islam and denounced the Hindu faith in front of a temple.

Question 27

____ 13. Hedonists do not believe that every pleasure is automatically good.

Question 28

Epicurus was greatly interested in the hedonistic approach to life. At length he rejected it. One of his major reasons was that

A) no one could live long enough to experience all possible pleasures.
B) the hedonist failed to distinguish between what was and what was not permitted by law.
C) he could not condone the amount of fasting required by the hedonists.
D) he believed that conformity to the demands of society was in the long run more conducive to peace of mind; no dedicated hedonist had ever been recognized for intellectual achievements.

Question 29

____ 12. Aristippus believed people do not enjoy working but do so only to earn enough money to have pleasure.

Question 30

Which of the following lines expresses a hedonistic view of life?

A) "To feel the always coming on/The always rising of the night"
B) "he should not place himself in a position to lose that"
C) "foster child of silence and slow time"
D) "Gather ye rose-buds while ye may"
E) "Thou hast made me, and shall thy work decay?"

Question 31

____ 8. Zeno was the first major advocate of stoicism.

Question 32

After being freed from slavery, he spent his life as a teacher:

A) Gandhi
B) Socrates
C) Aristotle
D) Epicurus
E) Epictetus

Question 33

Thomas à Becket was ordered killed by King Henry II because

A) he refused to officiate at Henry's marriage to a divorced woman.
B) he was found guilty of denouncing the king's ordinances from the pulpit.
C) the king was afraid that Becket had his eye on the throne of England.
D) Becket urged the pope to dismiss several bishops who were on the king's side.
E) Becket refused to renounce the Catholic faith.

Question 34

Which of the following statements is based directly on Aristotle's theory of happiness?

A) Pleasure can never lead to happiness.
B) If you want to be happy, don't seek wealth.
C) The memory of pleasure is never as good as the direct experience of it.
D) Since we seek pleasure in order to be happy, happiness and pleasure cannot be the same.
E) People who think too much can never achieve happiness.

Question 35

Which of the following is not associated with stoicism?

A) The fear of death is worse than death itself.
B) When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
C) It was popular in both Rome and the early Christian world.
D) Belief in God can be psychologically true.
E) The universe is an orderly system.

Question 36

____ 7. The painting Los Borrachos (The Drunkards) by Diego Velazquez is a good visual representation of epicureanism.

Question 37

____ 14. Aristotle might have told Olympic athletes that if they could achieve complete happiness, they would never need to compete again.

Question 38

He said "The size of human suffering is absolutely relative."

A) Otto Frank
B) Victor Frankl
C) Martin Luther King Jr.
D) the Dalai Lama
E) Zeno

Question 39

Being resigned to adversity one day, then winning the lottery the next day and buying everything you ever wanted would mean changing loyalties from which philosopher to become a follower of which philosopher?

A) Aristotle, Epictetus
B) Aristippus, Zeno
C) Zeno, Aristippus
D) Epictetus, Aristotle
E) Frankl, Epictetus

Question 40

____ 9. In hedonism, neither the memory nor the anticipation of pleasure can bring true happiness.

Question 41

Considered the acknowledged leader of Tibetan Buddhism:

A) Hinayana
B) Gandhi
C) Lao-tzu
D) Tao Te Ching
E) the Dalai Lama

Question 42

Which of the following is not associated with epicureanism?

A) accepts a modified version of hedonism
B) discipline and moderation
C) intellectual activity as a source of pain
D) intellectual activity as a source of pleasure
E) love of the arts and gourmet dining

Question 43

Which of the following is not associated with Aristotle's theory of happiness?

A) Health and wealth are paths to happiness.
B) Love is the highest good in life.
C) Happiness and joy are not the same thing.
D) Wisdom is more important than success.
E) The sole reason for government is to provide for the happiness of the people.

Question 44

To find the roots of unhappiness, the stoic advises, we must

A) look inward.
B) refuse to believe that fate has caused it.
C) be suspicious of friends who seem overly concerned about our well-being.
D) reevaluate the packaged opinions delivered up by smooth-talking TV commentators.
E) review the past history of family relationships, especially unresolved conflicts.

Question 45

Which of the following paths is primarily designed to bring the individual to a state of peace?

A) Mahayana
B) the Odessa Steps
C) the Silk Road
D) Hinayana
E) the teachings of Alaa Al Aswany