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

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

3. 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) Despotic government.
(c) Corrupt government.
(d) Abusive government.

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

5. Plato thought that the wives of the two highest social class should be what?
(a) From the lower classes.
(b) Housed in the same facility.
(c) Held in common.
(d) In charge of ruling.

6. What is the name of the Catholic scholar who made Aristotle's work famous in the more modern world?
(a) Thaddeus Aquinas.
(b) Thomas Aquinas.
(c) Timothy Aquinas.
(d) Tally Aquinas.

7. Democracy is a corruption of what?
(a) Monarchy.
(b) Communal rule.
(c) Oligarchy.
(d) Polity.

8. Aristotle says that slaves should only cultivate the virtue of what?
(a) Obedience.
(b) Free speech.
(c) Acting for themselves.
(d) Thinking.

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

10. Aristotle says that some oligarchies can progress to what?
(a) Democracies.
(b) Monarchies.
(c) Aristocracies.
(d) Polities.

11. What is the method of acquisition involved in the accumulation of livestock animals?
(a) Livestock hoarding.
(b) Stock rearing.
(c) Stock hoarding.
(d) Livestock rearing.

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

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

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

15. Aristotle quotes Socrates as saying a man should have enough property to do what?
(a) Provide for his family.
(b) Live well.
(c) Not have to work.
(d) Provide for his amusements.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is defined as the distribution and retail of merchandise?

2. Spartan kings were generals and what?

3. Aristotle says that if an individual can get a monopoly, they can do what?

4. What name does Aristotle give the class that are fighters and legislators?

5. Who believed that the rule of a state and the rule of a city was the same?

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