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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book2, Book 2 : Chapter 2, Constitutions and Leaders.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Aristotle compares a constitution to what?
(a) The capstone in an arch.
(b) The supporting column of a building.
(c) The hub of a spoked wheel.
(d) The gears in a mill.

2. The issues most closely connected with occurrences of civil strife are education, preparation for adulthood, and the distribution of property, and what?
(a) Resources.
(b) Honors.
(c) Government money.
(d) Political authority.

3. What is the basic unit of society for Aristotle?
(a) Village.
(b) Family.
(c) Pair.
(d) State.

4. Aristotle divides the process of acquisition of goods into what number of means?
(a) Two.
(b) Five.
(c) One.
(d) Three.

5. The writer of the second introduction was a scholar from where?
(a) France.
(b) Greece.
(c) Spain.
(d) Britain.

Short Answer Questions

1. Aristotle thinks the best kind of rulership is what?

2. Who is the translator in this edition of of Aristotle's "Politics?"

3. Aristotle says that trying to accumulate more than what is needed is what?

4. The second introduction tells the reader that some of Aristotle's opinions might be met with what?

5. Aristotle gives what name to the people who own crops and livestock?

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