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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 4, Part 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the author suggest that, every few years, the tribunes be removed from the system of government?
(a) To prevent laziness.
(b) To prevent over-service.
(c) To prevent tyranny.
(d) To prevent unrest.

2. When a person has a minority vote, they must accept that they are wrong, and not which of the following?
(a) Informed.
(b) Free.
(c) Educated.
(d) Liberated.

3. The Sovereign Will is the expression of desired action to meet which of the following?
(a) The needs of the government.
(b) The needs of the community.
(c) The needs of the citizens.
(d) The needs of the state.

4. Banning public conversation and assembly for the sake of maintaining power is the act of which of the following?
(a) A desperado.
(b) A military leader.
(c) A king.
(d) A tyrant.

5. The author suggests that which of the following types of law is the foundation for all other laws?
(a) First.
(b) Second.
(c) Fourth.
(d) Third.

Short Answer Questions

1. When a state becomes too large, the government becomes which of the following to a high degree?

2. The author maintains that any manifestation of the will of a minority is which of the following?

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

4. The author believes that the people who deliberate and form the general will do not always do so from a place that houses which of the following?

5. Which of the following is destroyed if the government does not reflect the Sovereign Will?

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