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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1, Additional Characteristics of the State & the Role of the Philosopher in the State.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the greatest number of people Aristotle uses in the exercises in his book?
(a) 1,000.
(b) 10,000.
(c) 5,000.
(d) 2,000.

2. According to Aristotle, the end in a democracy is the best interests of whom?
(a) The poor.
(b) The rich.
(c) The middle class.
(d) The individual.

3. Aristotle believes that in an oligarchy, the oligarchs come from where?
(a) The aristocracy.
(b) The wealthy.
(c) The poor.
(d) The middle-class.

4. Aristotle says that the poor need to make sure they do what to the rich?
(a) Take money and redistribute it.
(b) Protect their property.
(c) Include them in decisions.
(d) Tax them.

5. Phaleas of Chalcedon proposed that property should be divided how?
(a) Unevenly.
(b) Rather evenly.
(c) According to familial needs.
(d) According to status in society.

Short Answer Questions

1. Aristotle believes that ensuring the division and inheritance of estates is a way to control wealth and what?

2. The issues most closely connected with occurrences of civil strife are education, preparation for adulthood, and the distribution of property, and what?

3. What type of governing system used judges and juries, with no fees associated with the dispensation of justice?

4. The first of Aristotle's two arguments about force and governance says that "might is ______."

5. Who believed that the rule of a state and the rule of a city was the same?

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