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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the author, by which of the following does the government tend to govern when it becomes large and bureaucratic?
(a) General will.
(b) Representative will.
(c) Sovereign Will.
(d) Individual will.

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

3. The author believes that if there were a state populated by which of the following, a democracy might be able to govern.
(a) Educated citizens.
(b) Wealthy people.
(c) Few citizens.
(d) Gods.

4. The views presented by the author on Christianity, would be considered which of the following by the Christian church?
(a) True.
(b) Heresy.
(c) Sympathetic.
(d) Honest.

5. 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) Antithetical.
(b) Identical.
(c) Complementary.
(d) Supplementary.

Short Answer Questions

1. A natural aristocracy is based on government by which of the following?

2. In order to keep all the cities equal within the state, what does the author suggest be moved from city to city?

3. In order to promote efficiency in a democracy, in which of the following must there be utter equality in rank and fortune?

4. The author believes that there is too much reverence for which of the following in many states?

5. Which of the following should be the objective that people undertake in government?

Short Essay Questions

1. What type of government does the author think is best?

2. What type of situation calls for a dictator?

3. What is one of the three conditions that must be in place for a democracy not to be unwieldy and inefficient?

4. Whose power is null and void when assemblies are called?

5. What are the three forms of aristocracy?

6. For what purpose does the author use the government in Venice as an example?

7. What is the best way for the Sovereign Will to be understood?

8. What does the author state the government in Ancient Rome to be based on its high degree of closeness to natural order?

9. What is the only law that the author believes requires unanimous consent?

10. How did the ancient people think of nature?

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