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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. Aristotle explains that in the Greek city-states, more than one type of what has been used?
(a) Government.
(b) Laws.
(c) Constitution.
(d) Citizenship structure.

2. Aristotle believes that in most societies, there is numerically more of what type of citizens than any other?
(a) Free poor.
(b) Servant poor.
(c) Enslaved poor.
(d) Adult poor.

3. Who founded the Spartan constitution?
(a) Lawturgus.
(b) Lametogus.
(c) Lythogus.
(d) Lycurgus.

4. This type of constitution is not limited by actual conditions and is not required to function in practice.
(a) Unique.
(b) Promissory.
(c) Descriptive.
(d) Ideal.

5. Democracy is a corruption of what?
(a) Polity.
(b) Communal rule.
(c) Oligarchy.
(d) Monarchy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Aristotle believes that a social safety net is necessary to provide relief but is not meant as a substitute for what?

2. According to Aristotle, the end in a democracy is the best interests of whom?

3. Aristotle says that slaves belong to whom?

4. Aristotle says that those who write constitutions are statesmen, philosophers and what?

5. After "Politics" was translated by its first translators, what was one of the other two languages it was soon translated into?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is one virtue a political leader must have, according to Aristotle?

2. What is one suggestion made about the distribution of property in a city-state?

3. How does Aristotle divide the process of acquiring goods?

4. What does Aristotle believe that people should be trained for?

5. What are focal points in creating a constitution?

6. Why does Aristotle define the economic practices of the non-Greeks as exchange?

7. What is one reason Aristotle advocates for permanent rulership?

8. What did Plato feel about women and why?

9. What is the difference between a democracy and a polity?

10. What is Aristotle's cure for people who commit crimes because they need satiation and fulfillment of desires that go far beyond needs?

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