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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Aristotle gives what name to the people who own crops and livestock?
(a) Farmers.
(b) Providers.
(c) Earners.
(d) Stock holders.

2. Aristotle says that when people of wealth are cast into poverty, it is a breeding ground for what?
(a) Revolutionaries.
(b) Criminals.
(c) Discontents.
(d) Murderers.

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

4. What word is defined by Aristotle as: a clarification of the organized system of relationships within a state?
(a) Governing documents.
(b) Constitution.
(c) Rule of law.
(d) Founding documents.

5. Who believed that the rule of a state and the rule of a city was the same?
(a) Americans.
(b) Ancient Greeks.
(c) Arabs.
(d) British.

6. Aristotle says that in order to receive the full load of privileges and obligations related to being a citizen, a person must what?
(a) Be educated.
(b) Live in one place.
(c) Have his parents be citizens.
(d) Be an adult.

7. There is an unconfirmed story that, at the time of his death, Aristotle's "Politics" was what?
(a) Sent to Alexandria.
(b) Burned.
(c) Buried with him.
(d) Unpublished.

8. Aristotle says there are two things a ruler must be concerned with: the population and what?
(a) Resources.
(b) Warriors.
(c) Territory.
(d) Buildings.

9. For Aristotle, what is the moment of transition between the level of organization in a government?
(a) When it moves beyond the village.
(b) When it moves between city-states.
(c) When it moves beyond the pair.
(d) When it moves beyond the household.

10. Aristotle thinks the best kind of rulership is what?
(a) Semi-permanent.
(b) Temporary.
(c) Permanent.
(d) Periodic.

11. Aristotle says that trying to accumulate more than what is needed is what?
(a) Against humanity.
(b) Discouraged.
(c) Unnatural.
(d) Irresponsible.

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

13. Absolute monarchs have what type of authority?
(a) Sacred authority.
(b) Divine right.
(c) Secular authority.
(d) Full authority.

14. The second introduction helps readers to what?
(a) Understand Aristotle's life.
(b) Know the history of Ancient Greece.
(c) Know how to interpret the book.
(d) Get ready to read Aristotle.

15. The second introduction tells the reader that some of Aristotle's opinions might be met with what?
(a) Hostility.
(b) Agreement.
(c) Understanding.
(d) Acceptance.

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. Who felt that women should be warriors, just like the men?

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

4. Aristotle says that territory, population, constitution, and name are the four basics of what?

5. 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?

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