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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. The issues most closely connected with occurrences of civil strife are education, preparation for adulthood, and the distribution of property, and what?
(a) Honors.
(b) Resources.
(c) Government money.
(d) Political authority.

2. According to Aristotle, the virtues needed in a ruler are ________ _________ those needed in the ruled.
(a) Akin with.
(b) Similar to.
(c) Greater than.
(d) Distinct from.

3. Absolute monarchs are people whose rule is very much like what?
(a) A parent.
(b) A teacher.
(c) A soldier.
(d) A professor.

4. 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) Celtic Empire.
(b) Persian Empire.
(c) Roman Empire.
(d) Saxson Empire.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. For Aristotle, what is the moment of transition between the level of organization in a government?

3. Who asked the question of whether a changed constitution does, or does not, indicate a change of state?

4. Aristotle believes that anyone who is found with exceptionally high virtue will be encouraged to be what?

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

2. What is one virtue a political leader must have, according to Aristotle?

3. What are focal points in creating a constitution?

4. Who is Phaleas of Chalcedon?

5. Aristotle says that age yields rank; what follows?

6. What is the top cause of crime, and how can it be solved?

7. What is the story of Thales of Miletus?

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

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

10. What is one suggestion made about the distribution of property in a city-state?

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