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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Relational politics.
(c) Relative politics.
(d) Symbiosis.

2. Aristotle says that a king should be highly what, towards his subjects?
(a) Caring and concerned.
(b) Demanding and demeaning.
(c) Harsh and available.
(d) Affectionate and dominant.

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

4. A Sicilian who had a monopoly was forced out of Syracuse by whom?
(a) The courts.
(b) The other producers.
(c) Its ruler.
(d) The other merchants.

5. Aristotle believes that the rational is not anti what?
(a) Anti-logical.
(b) Anti-governmental.
(c) Anti-emotional.
(d) Anti-passions.

Short Answer Questions

1. A universal constitution means, according to Aristotle, that the constitution can do what?

2. How long has Aristotle's "Politics" been around?

3. Aristotle says that a lack of what, is the primary source of changes within a state's constitution?

4. Aristotle says that a move can be unpopular and tyrannical yet still what, if it was done for the common good?

5. What, according to Aristotle, is the top cause of crime?

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