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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 4, Part 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author thinks that, as an expression of the Sovereign Will, the purer the expression means the greater of which of the following?
(a) Number of voters.
(b) Number of votes.
(c) Minority votes.
(d) Majority votes.

2. The author believes that regular assemblies will prevent the rise of which of the following?
(a) Social tension.
(b) Poverty.
(c) A revolutionary class.
(d) A tyrant.

3. When men work together in the way that the author suggests, it produces what type of authority?
(a) True moral and malignant authority.
(b) True moral and compact authority.
(c) True moral and majority authority.
(d) True moral and collective authority.

4. According to the author, which of the following does man give up in the social contract?
(a) Unlimited speech.
(b) Unlimited property.
(c) Unlimited power.
(d) Unlimited freedom.

5. The will of all is a conglomeration of which of the following?
(a) Private interests.
(b) Private companies.
(c) Private needs.
(d) Private charities.

Short Answer Questions

1. The government should be abolished if it no longer does which of the following?

2. The author believes that sparsely populated areas are those that provide potential for which of the following?

3. The author believes that every individual has the responsibility to die in defense of which of the following?

4. According to the author, the state does not have a right to take the life of an individual who threatens which of the following?

5. Which of the following terms is used to refer to anything that takes the citizen away from that which he perceives as his life of relative ease?

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