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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. Aristotle believes that a good monarch is not above what?
(a) The failure of self.
(b) The law.
(c) The promise of power.
(d) The will of the people.

2. Aristotle believes that in most societies, there is numerically more of what type of citizens than any other?
(a) Servant poor.
(b) Adult poor.
(c) Free poor.
(d) Enslaved poor.

3. Aristotle says that slaves should only cultivate the virtue of what?
(a) Acting for themselves.
(b) Obedience.
(c) Free speech.
(d) Thinking.

4. When Aristotle explains the family, he does it with relation to what?
(a) The state.
(b) The work done.
(c) The household.
(d) The village.

5. Today, Aristotle's work is mainly reviewed where?
(a) High school.
(b) Elementary school.
(c) Colleges.
(d) Law school.

Short Answer Questions

1. Aristotle gives what name to the people who own crops and livestock?

2. Aristotle says that those who write constitutions are statesmen, philosophers and what?

3. The second introduction helps readers to what?

4. After "Politics" was translated by its first translators, what was one of the other two languages it was soon translated into?

5. Aristotle quotes Socrates as saying a man should have enough property to do what?

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