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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. Aristotle thinks that the craftsman who tries to make laws will do what?
(a) Make bad laws.
(b) Not care about his duties.
(c) Ask to be released.
(d) Make good laws.

2. 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.

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

4. Aristotle believes that anyone who is found with exceptionally high virtue will be encouraged to be what?
(a) The tyrant.
(b) The ultimate judge.
(c) The general.
(d) The kind.

5. Who felt that women should be warriors, just like the men?
(a) Sparta.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Plato.
(d) Giddeon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Aristotle think is the solution to crime?

2. 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?

3. What does Aristotle calls the pool from which oligarchies draw their officials?

4. Logging, gathering fruits, and using minerals are lumped under what term?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is an absolute monarch?

2. What happened to "The Politics" upon Aristotle's death?

3. How does a correct constitution lead to a just society, according to Aristotle?

4. What is an aristocracy?

5. What constitutions does Aristotle survey in his book?

6. How does Aristotle divide the process of acquiring goods?

7. What is Aristotle's definition of the rational?

8. What are the two arguments relating to force and justice as Aristotle presents them?

9. Why does Aristotle define the economic practices of the non-Greeks as exchange?

10. What is the goal of the second introduction?

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