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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 author believes that there must be a balance between the size of the state and the ability of which of the following?
(a) The legislators to evaluate it.
(b) The people to know it.
(c) The land to support it.
(d) The government to administer it.

2. The author believes he is a citizen of which of the following?
(a) Republican state.
(b) Tyrannical state.
(c) Monarchical state.
(d) Free state.

3. When the author writes of a sovereign within the social contract, he refers to which of the following?
(a) The outward will of the group.
(b) The collective authority.
(c) The single ruler.
(d) The person in leadership of the group.

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

5. When men work together in the way that the author suggests, it produces what type of authority?
(a) True moral and malignant authority.
(b) True moral and majority authority.
(c) True moral and collective authority.
(d) True moral and compact authority.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author, the larger that a state is, the less influence which of the following will have?

2. The term, inherent in anarchy, refers to which of the following?

3. According to the author, a city is a collection of which of the following?

4. The first type of laws govern the interaction between the state and which of the following?

5. The second type of law governs the relationship between which of the following within the state?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to the individual's hold on his personal property when he is part of the state?

2. What does the author cite as being an essential foundation for living and governing the right way?

3. Why are legislators with the correct qualities important?

4. What are the three levels of will that a magistrate has operating within themselves?

5. On what type of standard are the authoritarian socio-political system and the family system both based?

6. How does the author suggest that power for deciding who has authority must be established?

7. What happens if a state becomes too large?

8. How is the body politic destroyed?

9. Why does every individual have the responsibility to die in defense of the state?

10. What is the trade being made between freedom and government when there is only one magistrate?

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