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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Aristocracies.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Aristotle believes that ensuring the division and inheritance of estates is a way to control wealth and what?
(a) Monarchies.
(b) Oligarchies.
(c) Population.
(d) Influence.

2. What is the term Aristotle gives for a government that has a sovereign rule of one?
(a) Tyranny.
(b) Monarchy.
(c) Despotism.
(d) Aristocracy.

3. Aristotle says that kings and tyrants rely on personal power combined with what?
(a) Social power.
(b) Military power.
(c) The law.
(d) Monetary power.

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

5. Aristotle says that the Lacedaemonians have a form of communal care for the young, which is called what?
(a) Child rearing.
(b) Public raising.
(c) Child care.
(d) Public education.

Short Answer Questions

1. Aristotle believes that the rational is not anti what?

2. Aristotle says that when an increase in free populace is needed, or when a state is new, there may be lax rules about what?

3. Legals structures, like constitutions, are starting points for what?

4. Aristotle says that tyrants require what for protection?

5. The proper education for a monarch is the same as that of a man within a state governed by what?

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