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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1, Additional Characteristics of the State & the Role of the Philosopher in the State.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In oligarchies, what is the group that needs special protections?
(a) The children.
(b) The poor.
(c) The women.
(d) The middle-class.

2. Aristotle believes that ensuring the division and inheritance of estates is a way to control wealth and what?
(a) Influence.
(b) Oligarchies.
(c) Population.
(d) Monarchies.

3. Aristotle says that slaves belong to whom?
(a) No one.
(b) Themselves.
(c) Their masters.
(d) God.

4. What is the method of acquisition involved in the accumulation of livestock animals?
(a) Stock hoarding.
(b) Livestock rearing.
(c) Stock rearing.
(d) Livestock hoarding.

5. Who believed that the rule of a state and the rule of a city was the same?
(a) British.
(b) Ancient Greeks.
(c) Americans.
(d) Arabs.

Short Answer Questions

1. Aristotle says there should be a court set up, specifically, to deal with what?

2. 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?

3. Aristotle says that a government will have problems when more of its people are interested in profit than in what?

4. Who is the translator in this edition of of Aristotle's "Politics?"

5. According to Aristotle, what will be greatest amongst those of superior intellect and character?

(see the answer key)

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