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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Aristotle is opposed to rule by what?
(a) Inheritance.
(b) Merit.
(c) Factions.
(d) Groups.

2. When Aristotle explains the family, he does it with relation to what?
(a) The state.
(b) The household.
(c) The village.
(d) The work done.

3. Aristotle says that territory, population, constitution, and name are the four basics of what?
(a) A state.
(b) A citizen.
(c) A people.
(d) A ruler.

4. A correct constitution is conductive to the creation and implementation of what?
(a) Just rulers.
(b) Just citizens.
(c) Just laws.
(d) Just states.

5. What is defined as the distribution and retail of merchandise?
(a) Capitalism.
(b) Sales.
(c) Trade.
(d) Commerce.

6. Aristotle explains that in the Greek city-states, more than one type of what has been used?
(a) Constitution.
(b) Government.
(c) Citizenship structure.
(d) Laws.

7. 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) Democracy.
(d) Oligarchy.

8. What name does Aristotle give the class that are fighters and legislators?
(a) Promoters.
(b) Protectors.
(c) Guides.
(d) Guardians.

9. Aristotle says that popular kings are protect by what?
(a) The military.
(b) Their own subjects.
(c) Justice.
(d) The rule of law.

10. Aristotle says that tyrants require what for protection?
(a) Foreigners.
(b) Bodyguards.
(c) A grand palace.
(d) High walls.

11. How many of the highest ranking officials do Plato and Aristotle thinks should be above the law?
(a) Two.
(b) None.
(c) One.
(d) Three.

12. The writer of the second introduction was a scholar from where?
(a) France.
(b) Greece.
(c) Britain.
(d) Spain.

13. When Aristotle describes a "pair" in society, what is he describing?
(a) An adult man and woman.
(b) Any pair of people that work together.
(c) Any pair of citizens who contract together.
(d) Any two consenting adults.

14. Absolute monarchs are trusted completely by their subjects until what?
(a) They have children.
(b) Something changes.
(c) They die.
(d) There is a war.

15. How long has Aristotle's "Politics" been around?
(a) Over three millenia.
(b) Over four millenia.
(c) Over two millenia.
(d) Over five millenia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Aristotle says that acquiring what is needed is what?

2. Aristotle compares a constitution to what?

3. Aristotle believes that the ruler must have the virtue of being able to create the desired result, which is defined as what?

4. Aristotle believes that it is only in what type of government that there will be people who view themselves as outside of, or above, the law?

5. Plato thought that the wives of the two highest social class should be what?

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