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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. Who believed that the rule of a state and the rule of a city was the same?
(a) Arabs.
(b) Ancient Greeks.
(c) British.
(d) Americans.

2. Aristotle believes that it is possible for a good state to be governed by a monarch that is what?
(a) Just.
(b) Educated.
(c) Confident.
(d) Well-liked.

3. The first of Aristotle's two arguments about force and governance says that "might is ______."
(a) Right.
(b) For the powerful.
(c) Against the weak.
(d) Not right.

4. Aristotle says that the Lacedaemonians have a form of communal care for the young, which is called what?
(a) Child care.
(b) Child rearing.
(c) Public education.
(d) Public raising.

5. Aristotle says there should be a court set up, specifically, to deal with what?
(a) Children.
(b) Foreigners.
(c) Women.
(d) Slaves.

Short Answer Questions

1. Aristotle says that a move can be unpopular and tyrannical yet still what, if it was done for the common good?

2. In Sparta, the military could not station men on what kind of land?

3. Aristotle says that monarchies are purely what?

4. Plato thought that the wives of the two highest social class should be what?

5. Aristotle says that in tyranny, personal power, and which of the following, hold sway irrespective of the law.

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