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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The First Treatise of Government, Chapters 1-5, pp. 5-36.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What effect does Locke feel that Filmer's comparison of powers have?
(a) Evokes anger.
(b) Flatters the ambitions of monarchs.
(c) Confuses readers.
(d) Creates zealots.

2. 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 power of marriage and the power of childbirth.
(d) The right to own a slave and the right to fight.

3. Who offers a compelling argument in favor of the right to rule?
(a) Eve.
(b) Filmer.
(c) Locke.
(d) Adam.

4. How does Locke differ in his perception of Eve as compared to Filmer?
(a) Locke argues that Eve was a warrior.
(b) Locke believes that Eve controlled all the power in her relationship with Adam.
(c) Locke does not believe that Eve had to be subjected to the power of Adam.
(d) Locke believes that Eve was powerless.

5. What is Locke's conclusion pertaining to the knowledge contained in the biblical scripture?
(a) That slavery was acceptable.
(b) That it was not a grant from God to have power of all men.
(c) That God decreed that Adam be king.
(d) That God said Eve was subservient to Adam's will.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Filmer in the First Treatise what does the bible prove?

2. Who is described by Filmer as possibly having absolute power as a monarch?

3. In the First Treatise, what does Locke believe that the book Patriacha actually promotes?

4. In Genesis, when were men and other living creatures created?

5. What order did the first man in the world receive from God?

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