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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) Earners.
(c) Providers.
(d) Stock holders.

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

3. Today, Aristotle's work is mainly reviewed where?
(a) Law school.
(b) Colleges.
(c) Elementary school.
(d) High school.

4. What, according to Aristotle, is the top cause of crime?
(a) Too many children.
(b) Lack of a job.
(c) No education.
(d) Poverty.

5. Absolute monarchs are trusted completely by their subjects until what?
(a) There is a war.
(b) They have children.
(c) They die.
(d) Something changes.

6. Aristotle believes that a society in which the members choose to obey laws will be what type of society?
(a) Orderly.
(b) Just.
(c) Lawful.
(d) Regulated.

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(b) Unpublished.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

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

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

10. Who is the translator in this edition of of Aristotle's "Politics?"
(a) Samuelson.
(b) MacAdams.
(c) Wodwooth.
(d) Sinclair.

11. How many of the highest ranking officials do Plato and Aristotle thinks should be above the law?
(a) Two.
(b) One.
(c) Three.
(d) None.

12. What is the greatest number of people Aristotle uses in the exercises in his book?
(a) 1,000.
(b) 10,000.
(c) 2,000.
(d) 5,000.

13. Some of the difficulties that Aristotle doesn't address that have to do with larger groups of people might have been solved by what Empire?
(a) Persian Empire.
(b) Celtic Empire.
(c) Roman Empire.
(d) Saxson Empire.

14. Aristotle says that slaves belong to whom?
(a) God.
(b) Themselves.
(c) Their masters.
(d) No one.

15. This type of constitution is not limited by actual conditions and is not required to function in practice.
(a) Descriptive.
(b) Promissory.
(c) Ideal.
(d) Unique.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the Catholic scholar who made Aristotle's work famous in the more modern world?

2. Aristotle proposed that no family should have more than how many times what the lowest family has?

3. The father-son relationship is intended to epitomize what relationship?

4. The first of Aristotle's two arguments about force and governance says that "might is ______."

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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