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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3, Book 3: Chapter 2, Kingship.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What, according to Aristotle, is the top cause of crime?
(a) Too many children.
(b) No education.
(c) Poverty.
(d) Lack of a job.

2. How many of the highest ranking officials do Plato and Aristotle thinks should be above the law?
(a) One.
(b) Two.
(c) None.
(d) Three.

3. Aristotle is opposed to rule by what?
(a) Merit.
(b) Inheritance.
(c) Groups.
(d) Factions.

4. Aristotle believes that anyone who is found with exceptionally high virtue will be encouraged to be what?
(a) The general.
(b) The ultimate judge.
(c) The kind.
(d) The tyrant.

5. Where was Aristotle a citizen of?
(a) Athens.
(b) Sparta.
(c) Crete.
(d) Macedonia.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the name for a type of rule when the actual ruling is done by a small group of people?

3. Aristotle proposed that no family should have more than how many times what the lowest family has?

4. The text of Aristotle's politics is divided into what?

5. Aristotle says that when people of wealth are cast into poverty, it is a breeding ground for what?

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