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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 11- 15, pp. 182 - 204.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is despotic power defined in the Second Treatise?
(a) Political power to preserve property.
(b) Arbitrary power that one man has over another man's life.
(c) Political power as a result of voluntary agreement.
(d) Paternal power coming from nature.

2. When a person suffers damages, what right does he have according to Locke?
(a) The right to seek reparations.
(b) The right to complain.
(c) The right to fight.
(d) The right to destroy.

3. What do laws exist for?
(a) To stop war.
(b) To prevent fighting.
(c) To preserve land.
(d) The good of society.

4. When a person violates the state of liberty, what does Locke say must ensue?
(a) The offender must be punished.
(b) Negotiations.
(c) Nothing.
(d) War.

5. How do people pay for the benefit of the government's protection?
(a) By giving up some rights.
(b) Voting.
(c) By refusing to fight.
(d) Taxation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Locke believe that the First Treatise proves?

2. To understand political power, what is important to have?

3. What commandment applies to men and women according to Locke?

4. To whom does Locke think a child owes the most?

5. What right did man have with regard to other, according to Filmer?

(see the answer key)

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