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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. What type of assembly deals with day-to-day matters?
(a) A religious assembly.
(b) An emergency assembly.
(c) A criminal assembly.
(d) A superior assembly.

2. The author believes that if the Sovereign Will enacted laws, right and which of the following would be confounded?
(a) Objectivity.
(b) Truth.
(c) Opinion.
(d) Fact.

3. According to the author, which of the following terms best describes individuals who are forced to focus on money?
(a) Slaves.
(b) Poor.
(c) Farmers.
(d) Selfish.

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

5. How does the author believes that certain positions that require particular skills and experience should be decided?
(a) By lot.
(b) By vote.
(c) By appointment.
(d) By inheritance.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author, any expression of dissent must be which of the following?

2. 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?

3. Which of the following does the author think should be established to prevent the abuse of power?

4. Which of the following lawgivers divided Rome into mathematically precise groups?

5. Which of the following does the Sovereign Will become when private interests dominate government?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Once established, why should government never be altered?

3. What does a censor do?

4. According to the author, what is the sign of a good government?

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

6. What does the author suggest that the religion of the state should be?

7. How did the ancient people think of nature?

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

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

10. Pursuant to the author's rule, what is the exception to the government never being altered?

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