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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 4, Book 4: Chapter 2, Oligarchy, Tyranny & Deceit in Politics.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Aristotle says that monarchies are purely what?
(a) Natural.
(b) Patriarchal.
(c) Matriarchal.
(d) Hierarchical.

2. At the time of Aristotle's writing, Macedon was what type of government?
(a) Polity.
(b) Oligarchy.
(c) Monarchy.
(d) Democracy.

3. The proper education for a monarch is the same as that of a man within a state governed by what?
(a) Polity.
(b) Aristocracy.
(c) Oligarchy.
(d) Democracy.

4. The first of Aristotle's two arguments about force and governance says that "might is ______."
(a) Against the weak.
(b) For the powerful.
(c) Right.
(d) Not right.

5. Aristotle thinks that the constitution of the Lacedaemonians is what?
(a) Mediocre.
(b) Popular.
(c) Balanced.
(d) Well thought out.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who felt that women should be warriors, just like the men?

2. How old do people have to be to be on the Board of Elders?

3. Aristotle says that holding property in common, in communal status, leads to what?

4. Some of the difficulties that Aristotle doesn't address that have to do with larger groups of people might have been solved by what Empire?

5. One of the constitutions that Aristotle studies, by name, is a constitution made by whom?

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