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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The author believes that change is a fundamental aspect of which of the following, and cannot be stopped?

3. The discussion that the author has about population would be described today using which of the following terms?

4. Where does the author believe government to have the best and truest form of ultimate power?

5. The author believes he is a citizen of which of the following?

Short Essay Questions

1. When do individuals have to surrender their individual will?

2. How is the body politic destroyed?

3. What is the author's definition of law?

4. Why are legislators with the correct qualities important?

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

6. What type of obedience has less value and is less enduring?

7. Why do legislators have to be aware of timing when they present laws?

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

9. What is the most freeing way of life for an individual?

10. According to the author, what type of geography makes a state unstable?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

According to the author, what is a government and what are the different aspects of a government?

Essay Topic 2

What points in the book support the author's theme that the moral authority of the group is stronger than that of an individual?

Essay Topic 3

Using the examples from the book, explain the signs of a good government and a bad government. Also explain what takes place to make a good government turn into a bad government.

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