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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Aristotle divides the process of acquisition of goods into what number of means?
(a) Five.
(b) One.
(c) Two.
(d) Three.

2. At the time of Aristotle's writing, Macedon was what type of government?
(a) Oligarchy.
(b) Democracy.
(c) Polity.
(d) Monarchy.

3. Individual authority is a type of which rule?
(a) Aristocracy.
(b) Tyranny.
(c) Democracy.
(d) Republic.

4. What type of governing system used judges and juries, with no fees associated with the dispensation of justice?
(a) Rule of law system.
(b) Communacracy.
(c) Communism.
(d) Democracy.

5. Aristotle says that the second greatest cause of crime are desires that reach beyond what?
(a) Others.
(b) Wants.
(c) Needs.
(d) Means.

6. Phaleas of Chalcedon proposed that property should be divided how?
(a) Rather evenly.
(b) According to familial needs.
(c) Unevenly.
(d) According to status in society.

7. The father-son relationship is intended to epitomize what relationship?
(a) Mother-daughter.
(b) King-subject.
(c) Ruler-slave.
(d) Elder-commoner.

8. Aristotle says that acquiring what is needed is what?
(a) Necessary.
(b) Encouraged.
(c) Natural.
(d) Human.

9. What word is defined by Aristotle as: people within society who participate in giving judgment and holding political office?
(a) Rulers.
(b) Elite.
(c) Citizens.
(d) Political elite.

10. In relationship to food, Aristotle says that is better to be what, than cash rich?
(a) Have plenty of food and be generous.
(b) Have plenty of food and give to the poor.
(c) Have plenty of food and cash poor.
(d) Have plenty of food and cash neutral.

11. Aristotle believes that it is only in what type of government that there will be people who view themselves as outside of, or above, the law?
(a) Dishonest government.
(b) Abusive government.
(c) Corrupt government.
(d) Despotic government.

12. The first known translation of "Politics" after Aristotle's death was into what language?
(a) Arabic.
(b) German.
(c) French.
(d) Latin.

13. The proper education for a monarch is the same as that of a man within a state governed by what?
(a) Aristocracy.
(b) Polity.
(c) Democracy.
(d) Oligarchy.

14. Who was Aristotle's teacher?
(a) Homer.
(b) Giddeon.
(c) Socrates.
(d) Plato.

15. Aristotle believes that people should be trained for what?
(a) What their ideal place in society is.
(b) What their parents want them to do.
(c) What they are best suited to do.
(d) What they think they want to do.

Short Answer Questions

1. Aristotle says that the non-Greeks exchange how many barrels of wine when the chicken's eggs are of the best quality?

2. Aristotle says that tyrants require what for protection?

3. Aristotle believes that it is possible for a good state to be governed by a monarch that is what?

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

5. Plato thought that the wives of the two highest social class should be what?

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