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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 name for a type of rule when the actual ruling is done by a small group of people?
(a) Despotism.
(b) Oligarchy.
(c) Tyranny.
(d) Communism.

2. In relationship to food, Aristotle says that is better to be what, than cash rich?
(a) Have plenty of food and cash neutral.
(b) Have plenty of food and give to the poor.
(c) Have plenty of food and cash poor.
(d) Have plenty of food and be generous.

3. Aristotle quotes Socrates as saying a man should have enough property to do what?
(a) Live well.
(b) Provide for his family.
(c) Provide for his amusements.
(d) Not have to work.

4. What word does Aristotle define as: where the pure self-interest of each person correctly corresponds to and serves the purposes of the other?
(a) Matching.
(b) Symbiosis.
(c) Relative politics.
(d) Relational politics.

5. In Sparta, the military could not station men on what kind of land?
(a) Farm land.
(b) Government land.
(c) Dowry land.
(d) Animal grazing land.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many of the highest ranking officials do Plato and Aristotle thinks should be above the law?

2. Aristotle says that acquiring what is needed is what?

3. Spartan kings were generals and what?

4. Aristotle says that in tyranny, personal power, and which of the following, hold sway irrespective of the law.

5. A Sicilian who had a monopoly was forced out of Syracuse by whom?

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