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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. The author believes that slavery is bad, but that it was a worthwhile price to pay because it allowed individuals to do which of the following?
(a) Spend more time at home.
(b) Spend more time in government.
(c) Spend more time being educated.
(d) Spend more time being Legislators.

2. Which of the following terms best describes all assemblies by the people that fall outside the two types of assemblies that the author describes?
(a) Immoral.
(b) Individual.
(c) Illegal.
(d) Unauthorized.

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

4. As long as people create and define their government according to the Sovereign Will, the nation will do which of the following?
(a) Abolish poverty.
(b) Be rich.
(c) Run peacefully.
(d) Involve everyone.

5. When a government deteriorates, it results in the death of which of the following?
(a) The body politic.
(b) The way of life.
(c) The morality of the people.
(d) The state.

Short Answer Questions

1. When a person has a minority vote, they must accept that they are wrong, and not which of the following?

2. According to the author, by which of the following does the government tend to govern when it becomes large and bureaucratic?

3. When good sense, justice, and integrity are sufficient for a position, who should be in the lot to be chosen for those positions?

4. According to the author, any expression of dissent must be 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?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the author suggest is the relationship between the Christian faith and the sovereign?

3. In a monarchy, why does the power of the monarch have to be absolute?

4. What type of situation calls for a dictator?

5. What is the purpose of the tribunes?

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

7. How does the author define a democracy?

8. What prevents abuses of power in government?

9. What would happen if the Sovereign Will enacted laws?

10. What does the author acknowledge as a generality about the behavior of warm countries?

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