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

2. What is the name for a type of rule when the actual ruling is done by a small group of people?
(a) Despotism.
(b) Tyranny.
(c) Oligarchy.
(d) Communism.

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

4. At the time of Aristotle's writing, Macedon was what type of government?
(a) Polity.
(b) Democracy.
(c) Monarchy.
(d) Oligarchy.

5. According to Aristotle, what is the form of government found in families?
(a) Monarchy.
(b) Hierarchy.
(c) Oligarchy.
(d) Tyranny.

Short Answer Questions

1. Aristotle says that regulation of property by the state requires regulation of what?

2. Plato thought that the wives of the two highest social class should be what?

3. What word does Aristotle define as: where the pure self-interest of each person correctly corresponds to and serves the purposes of the other?

4. How old do people have to be to be on the Board of Elders?

5. This is the type of constitution that is the very best possible constitution that can be applied within a real, live city-state or other state.

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Aristotle's cure for people who commit crimes because they need satiation and fulfillment of desires that go far beyond needs?

2. What does Aristotle believe will happen to a man who has high virtue?

3. What is Aristotle's cure for limiting desires that reach beyond needs?

4. What are focal points in creating a constitution?

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

6. Who are the guardians?

7. How did Aristotle become famous in the modern world?

8. Who is Phaleas of Chalcedon?

9. What are the various levels of organization within a society?

10. For Aristotle, what are the virtues that a slave or skilled craftsman should develop?

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