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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. Why it is important to figure out the right of inheritance?
(a) It repudiates primogeniture.
(b) It explains the need for individual liberty.
(c) It determines the transfer of power.
(d) It creates order.

2. According to the First Treatise, in whom is power vested?
(a) Locke and his followers.
(b) King James.
(c) Filmer and his followers.
(d) Adam and descendants.

3. What two powers are considered identical by Filmer?
(a) The right to own property and the right to marry someone of your own choice.
(b) The power of the fathers and the power of kings.
(c) The right to own a slave and the right to fight.
(d) The power of marriage and the power of childbirth.

4. What does Locke say is protected by law and cannot be taken away by a ruler?
(a) Freedom to marry.
(b) Freedom to travel.
(c) Freedom to fight.
(d) Property.

5. When a father dies, onto whom does parental duty fall?
(a) The mother.
(b) The stepfather.
(c) The judge.
(d) The child.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Locke believe that taxes need in order to be passed?

2. What are the only two ways that kings can come to power, according to Filmer?

3. What relationship of power does Locke think is hard to understand?

4. Who does Filmer think the heir should be?

5. What happens in a state of liberty?

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