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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16- 19, pp. 205 - 240.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What should no human sanction oppose according to Locke?
(a) The right to assembly peacefully.
(b) The right to fight.
(c) The preservation of mankind.
(d) The right to rule.

2. To understand political power, what is important to have?
(a) A desire to rule.
(b) A state of perfect freedom for men.
(c) A state of equality.
(d) A knowledge of legal literature.

3. What does Locke call the use of power beyond what is considered right and good?
(a) Primogeniture.
(b) Merciless slaying.
(c) Slave ownership.
(d) Tyranny.

4. What is the main reason men enter into communities?
(a) To buy property.
(b) To become rulers.
(c) To learn laws.
(d) To preserve property.

5. What right did man have with regard to other, according to Filmer?
(a) No rights.
(b) The right to share land with them.
(c) To use them as necessary.
(d) The right to consume them for food.

Short Answer Questions

1. What biblical book connects monarchy with the commandment to honor thy father?

2. What do laws exist for?

3. What does man give up by joining a community?

4. Locke determines that children fail to experience __________ in their early years.

5. What does political power involve?

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