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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 4, Book 4: Chapter 2, Oligarchy, Tyranny & Deceit in Politics.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Aristotle says there are two things a ruler must be concerned with: the population and what?
(a) Resources.
(b) Territory.
(c) Warriors.
(d) Buildings.

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

3. Aristotle says that in tyranny, personal power, and which of the following, hold sway irrespective of the law.
(a) Prestige.
(b) Military might.
(c) Individuality.
(d) Money.

4. Aristotle says that a move can be unpopular and tyrannical yet still what, if it was done for the common good?
(a) Just.
(b) What was supposed to be done.
(c) Legal.
(d) Right.

5. Phaleas of Chalcedon proposed that property should be divided how?
(a) Unevenly.
(b) Rather evenly.
(c) According to status in society.
(d) According to familial needs.

Short Answer Questions

1. Aristotle says that holding property in common, in communal status, leads to what?

2. Aristotle proposed that no family should have more than how many times what the lowest family has?

3. The proper education for a monarch is the same as that of a man within a state governed by what?

4. Who believed that the rule of a state and the rule of a city was the same?

5. Aristotle believes that it is possible for a good state to be governed by a monarch that is what?

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