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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 4, Part 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Chapter 12 of Book 2 might best be described as which of the following types of chapter?
(a) Transition.
(b) Closing.
(c) Climactic.
(d) Opening.

2. If the natural circumstances are not taken into account by the legislator, what type of status will the state be in?
(a) Agitation.
(b) Peaceful.
(c) Anarchy.
(d) War-like.

3. The author states that moral equality must be substituted for which of the following in a social contract?
(a) Physical inequality.
(b) Possessor inequality.
(c) Property inequality.
(d) Social inequality.

4. According to the author, which of the following contributes toward obedience having less value?
(a) Respect.
(b) Desire.
(c) External forces.
(d) Fear.

5. The author believes that if the Sovereign Will enacted laws, right and which of the following would be confounded?
(a) Objectivity.
(b) Truth.
(c) Fact.
(d) Opinion.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author, the more Magistrates that there are, the closer that the government is to which of the following?

2. When the author writes of a sovereign within the social contract, he refers to which of the following?

3. Those votes influenced by the will of a despot are not which of the following?

4. According to the author, the state does not have a right to take the life of an individual who threatens which of the following?

5. When the author refers to "associations" formed in the community that must be kept equal, which of the following does he mean?

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