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Democracy
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citizens
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polis?
According to Aristotle’s typology
of governments, which of these
statements accurately defines a
d Oligarchy is a
government
organized around
D Democracy is a
government
organized around
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government that is
oppressive to the
All of these
type of government? a few men who
are primarily
motivated by
O many men who
are primarily
motivated by the
people.
their narrow
private and class
interests.
broad public
interest.
C
Which one of the following pairs
of cities formed the centers of
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the two greatest European
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explain how mixed governments
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According to the Pro & Con b The people met A deep respect for Slaves and resident All citizens were given
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to discuss and
decide major
the individual
rights and liberties
of all city residents
aliens (three-fifths
of the population)
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one vote in the
Assembly
What is the temporal world?
Who wrote that, without an all-
powerful monarch, human
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issues
The world of the
sacred
Niccolò
Machiavelli
The world of the
politically
powerful
John Calvin
citizenship
The world of
peoples and nations
and human history
Thomas Hobbes
The otherworldly
John Locke
beings will fall into a war of all
against all in which life is
“solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, D
and short”?
Who was the founder of the
Protestant Reformation?
c Martin Luther
King, Jr. O
Thomas Hobbes Martin Luther John Winthrop
In addition to social contract
theory, what are two other
concepts taken from classical
c Nothing else was
taken.
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besides social
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powers and free
contract theory in markets
Unlimited, immoderate
constitutional regimes
liberalism that influenced the
Founding generation?
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In the population of the a The English The Irish The Germans The Dutch
American colonies in 1765,
which ethnic group was the
largest?
What drove the idea behind the R
d The orthodox did Banishment was The vastness of the All of these
notion that the Americans had
“space” for dissent?
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not feel the need
to destroy the
unorthodox.
an accepted form
of punishment.
land allowed for
pockets of
acceptability
interspersed
between places of
orthodoxy.
What was political participation
like in the early colonies?
a It was very
democratic in
nature. D It was oligarchic
but still modestly
democratic in
It was oligarchic and
hence not very
democratic at all in
It was aristocratic and
hence not very
democratic at all in
To what area of social life did
Adam Smith most extensively
apply the principles of classical
c Law
O nature.
Government and
politics
nature.
The economy
nature.
Culture
liberalism?
Which Enlightenment thinker
argued the earliest and most
d Thomas Hobbes Niccolò
Machiavelli
C Baron de
Montesquieu
Francis Bacon
influentially that science and
discovery worked for the eternal
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Single-Select Multiple Choice
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Question Answer A B C D
A custom, practice, or b policy institution legal procedure rule
organization, often embedded
in rules and law, is called a
^___.^
R
Which of these terms refers to
the rule of an elite few for their
own interests?
According to Plato, who should
rule a properly constituted
d
a
SE
Monarchy
A philosopher-
king
Polis
A political science-
king
Democracy
The few wisest
citizens
Oligarchy
None of these
polis?
According to Aristotle’s typology
of governments, which of these
statements accurately defines a
d Oligarchy is a
government
organized around
D Democracy is a
government
organized around
Tyranny is any
government that is
oppressive to the
All of these
type of government? a few men who
are primarily
motivated by
O many men who
are primarily
motivated by the
people.
their narrow
private and class
interests.
broad public
interest.
C
Which one of the following pairs
of cities formed the centers of
© 2023 Taylor & Francis
c Paris and London Berlin and Madrid
S Athens and Rome Oslo and Copenhagen
, C
on
the two greatest European
fid
societies of the ancient world?
en
Before it was an empire, what c It was always an It was a It was a republic. It was a polity.
was ancient Rome?
N empire. democracy.
tia
Which theorists made the first a Polybius and Plato and Aristotle St. Augustine and St. Thomas Hobbes and
and most influential efforts to Cicero Thomas Aquinas John Locke
U
l
explain how mixed governments
can work in practice?
According to the Pro & Con b The people met A deep respect for Slaves and resident All citizens were given
section, which of the following
was not a characteristic of
“Athenian democracy?” R in the Assembly
to discuss and
decide major
the individual
rights and liberties
of all city residents
aliens (three-fifths
of the population)
were denied
one vote in the
Assembly
What is the temporal world?
Who wrote that, without an all-
powerful monarch, human
c
c
SE
issues
The world of the
sacred
Niccolò
Machiavelli
The world of the
politically
powerful
John Calvin
citizenship
The world of
peoples and nations
and human history
Thomas Hobbes
The otherworldly
John Locke
beings will fall into a war of all
against all in which life is
“solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, D
and short”?
Who was the founder of the
Protestant Reformation?
c Martin Luther
King, Jr. O
Thomas Hobbes Martin Luther John Winthrop
In addition to social contract
theory, what are two other
concepts taken from classical
c Nothing else was
taken.
There is nothing
besides social
C Separation of
powers and free
contract theory in markets
Unlimited, immoderate
constitutional regimes
liberalism that influenced the
Founding generation?
© 2023 Taylor & Francis
S
classical liberalism.
, C
on
Who were the Pilgrims? b Wealthy English Middling English Wealthy English Middling English
fid
Puritans who Puritans who Anglicans who Anglicans who settled
settled in the settled in New settled in the South in the Mid-Atlantic in
en
South in order to England in order in order to develop order to develop it
N avoid religious to avoid religious it economically economically and in
tia
persecution in persecution in some cases to avoid
their home their home religious persecution in
U country country their home country
l
In the population of the a The English The Irish The Germans The Dutch
American colonies in 1765,
which ethnic group was the
largest?
What drove the idea behind the R
d The orthodox did Banishment was The vastness of the All of these
notion that the Americans had
“space” for dissent?
SE
not feel the need
to destroy the
unorthodox.
an accepted form
of punishment.
land allowed for
pockets of
acceptability
interspersed
between places of
orthodoxy.
What was political participation
like in the early colonies?
a It was very
democratic in
nature. D It was oligarchic
but still modestly
democratic in
It was oligarchic and
hence not very
democratic at all in
It was aristocratic and
hence not very
democratic at all in
To what area of social life did
Adam Smith most extensively
apply the principles of classical
c Law
O nature.
Government and
politics
nature.
The economy
nature.
Culture
liberalism?
Which Enlightenment thinker
argued the earliest and most
d Thomas Hobbes Niccolò
Machiavelli
C Baron de
Montesquieu
Francis Bacon
influentially that science and
discovery worked for the eternal
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