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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. Spartan kings were generals and what?
(a) Political leaders.
(b) Philosophical leaders.
(c) Religious leaders.
(d) Family leaders.

2. 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.

3. When Aristotle describes a "pair" in society, what is he describing?
(a) An adult man and woman.
(b) Any pair of people that work together.
(c) Any pair of citizens who contract together.
(d) Any two consenting adults.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. At the time of Aristotle's writing, Macedon was what type of government?

2. Aristotle says that if an individual can get a monopoly, they can do what?

3. Aristotle says that the non-Greeks exchange how many barrels of wine when the chicken is going to be killed?

4. What is one of the two options that Aristotle says can describe "education for productive labor?"

5. What word does Aristotle define as: where the pure self-interest of each person correctly corresponds to and serves the purposes of the other?

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