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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1, Education and Leisure.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Unarmed and lightly armed combat is typically the preserve of whom, according to Aristotle?
(a) The middle-class.
(b) The poor.
(c) The young men.
(d) The women.

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?
(a) Freeing slaves and women.
(b) Who can hold property.
(c) Who can hold office.
(d) How to be a citizen.

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

4. According to Aristotle, the end in a democracy is the best interests of whom?
(a) The rich.
(b) The individual.
(c) The poor.
(d) The middle class.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name for a type of system that has leaders who are out of established lines of leaders?

2. Aristotle says that the best form of constitution is one that contains elements of all the different types of government, and creates an analogy between the best constitution and what?

3. Aristotle thinks that the constitution of the Lacedaemonians is what?

4. Aristotle says that the second greatest cause of crime are desires that reach beyond what?

5. In relationship to food, Aristotle says that is better to be what, than cash rich?

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