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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is defined as the distribution and retail of merchandise?
(a) Sales.
(b) Trade.
(c) Commerce.
(d) Capitalism.
2. Aristotle says that some oligarchies can progress to what?
(a) Polities.
(b) Monarchies.
(c) Aristocracies.
(d) Democracies.
3. Aristotle says that regulation of property by the state requires regulation of what?
(a) Jobs and occupations.
(b) Population.
(c) Resources.
(d) Wealth.
4. What is the greatest number of people Aristotle uses in the exercises in his book?
(a) 2,000.
(b) 10,000.
(c) 5,000.
(d) 1,000.
5. 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) Be an adult.
(c) Have his parents be citizens.
(d) Live in one place.
Short Answer Questions
1. Aristotle says that trying to accumulate more than what is needed is what?
2. Aristotle says that holding property in common, in communal status, leads to what?
3. Aristotle says that acquiring what is needed is what?
4. There is an unconfirmed story that, at the time of his death, Aristotle's "Politics" was what?
5. Who is the translator in this edition of of Aristotle's "Politics?"
Short Essay Questions
1. What are the various levels of organization within a society?
2. What is an absolute monarch?
3. Who is Phaleas of Chalcedon?
4. What is the difference between a democracy and a polity?
5. Who are the guardians?
6. For Aristotle, what are the virtues that a slave or skilled craftsman should develop?
7. What is one suggestion made about the distribution of property in a city-state?
8. What is the only motivation Aristotle allows for in placing someone above the law?
9. What is Aristotle's cure for people who commit crimes because they need satiation and fulfillment of desires that go far beyond needs?
10. Aristotle says that age yields rank; what follows?
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