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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author believes that there is too much reverence for which of the following in many states?
(a) Families.
(b) Children.
(c) Old rulers.
(d) Old laws.

2. According to the author, which of the following terms best describes what the basic tenets of the Christian faith are to the function of the Sovereign?
(a) Supplementary.
(b) Complementary.
(c) Antithetical.
(d) Identical.

3. According to the author, when is the only time that a dictatorship should only be established?
(a) In an emergency.
(b) In wartime.
(c) In peacetime.
(d) In times of civil unrest.

4. Which of the following lawgivers divided Rome into mathematically precise groups?
(a) Servius.
(b) Julius.
(c) Brutus.
(d) Maximus.

5. Which of the following is needed when it becomes difficult to have a just, effective balance between the various levels of government?
(a) Committees.
(b) Tribunes.
(c) Counts.
(d) New government.

6. Which of the following terms is used to describe belief in one god to the exclusion of all others?
(a) Polytheism.
(b) Monotheism.
(c) Dualism.
(d) Modernism.

7. The author believes that warm countries need which of the following in fewer numbers?
(a) Laws.
(b) Rules.
(c) Fields.
(d) People.

8. When the assemblies meet, which of the following should they break into in order to consider specific ideas?
(a) Committees.
(b) Sub-assemblies.
(c) Expert areas.
(d) Parties.

9. According to the author, the Princes who act as executives are fulfilling their duty as which of the following?
(a) Leaders.
(b) Individuals.
(c) Legislators.
(d) Citizens.

10. Which of the following forms of government is most suitable to small states?
(a) Socialism.
(b) Fascism.
(c) Libertarianism.
(d) Democracy.

11. In what ancient government was the need for representatives non-existent?
(a) Egypt.
(b) Greece.
(c) Rome.
(d) Viking.

12. The citizens of Rome were freed from their day-to-day chores by slaves which allowed them to do which of the following?
(a) Participate in the running of their state.
(b) Focus on education.
(c) Focus on lives of leisure.
(d) Focus on earning more money.

13. The author believes that sparsely populated areas are those that provide potential for which of the following?
(a) Philosophers.
(b) Tyrants.
(c) Educators.
(d) Legislators.

14. Which of the following offices does the author believe should be chosen by lot or chance, since those methods are closer to the laws of nature?
(a) The Magistrate.
(b) The Legislator.
(c) The Judge.
(d) The Prince.

15. The author's entire book is based on which of the following?
(a) Fiction.
(b) History.
(c) Fact.
(d) Theory.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author begins Book 4, Chapter 8, with a history of which of the following?

2. When a government becomes more focused on its own needs and desires than on the Sovereign Will, the citizens are not obliged to do which of the following?

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

4. Those votes influenced by the will of a despot are not which of the following?

5. The views presented by the author on Christianity, would be considered which of the following by the Christian church?

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