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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3, Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following terms refers to a generalized rule, way of communicating, or way of conducting affairs?
(a) Constitution.
(b) Society.
(c) Contract.
(d) Convention.

2. How rare does the author think that individuals who possess the ideal traits of legislators are?
(a) Not rare.
(b) Extremely rare.
(c) Moderately rare.
(d) So rare that they do not exist.

3. The author states that a social contract in a bad government does which of the following?
(a) Keeps the poor miserable.
(b) Keeps the middle-class miserable.
(c) Keeps everyone miserable.
(d) Keeps those in power miserable.

4. According to the author, which of the following does a legislator do?
(a) Repeals laws.
(b) Enacts laws.
(c) Makes laws.
(d) Interprets laws.

5. According to the author, the ideal legislator is objective, intelligent, and which of the following?
(a) Creative.
(b) Compassionate.
(c) Understanding.
(d) Delicate.

Short Answer Questions

1. When a state is too small, the people's spirit tends to become which of the following?

2. The author believes that if there were a state populated by which of the following, a democracy might be able to govern.

3. The author states that moral equality must be substituted for which of the following in a social contract?

4. When men work together in the way that the author suggests, it produces what type of authority?

5. The term, inherent in anarchy, refers to which of the following?

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