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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What fact does Locke believe refutes Filmer's claims?
(a) The sovereignty shared between parents.
(b) The property owner's rights.
(c) The slave owner's rights.
(d) The birth of Adam.

2. What biblical book connects monarchy with the commandment to honor thy father?
(a) Proverbs.
(b) Exodus.
(c) Genesis.
(d) Revelation.

3. What two titles push the theory of sovereignty, according to Locke?
(a) Titles of sisterhood and property.
(b) Titles of fatherhood and property.
(c) Titles of judiciary and executive control.
(d) Titles of slave and property ownership.

4. To support what theory does Locke employ numerous citations?
(a) The divine right to rule inherited by Adam.
(b) The need for subservience in children.
(c) The equality of power between both parents.
(d) The right to own slaves.

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

6. What kinds of goods does the first-born child inherit?
(a) The right to rule and control over the entire kingdom and its possessions.
(b) Slaves only.
(c) Property only.
(d) Right to control siblings only.

7. What relationship of power does Locke think is hard to understand?
(a) Fatherhood where children are the property of the father.
(b) Kings and queens.
(c) Men and women.
(d) Slaves and slave owners.

8. What does paternal authority imply?
(a) That men live for a long time.
(b) That the authority of kings will be challenged.
(c) That there can only be one king in the world.
(d) That monarchs will not survive.

9. What does Locke say he cannot find proof for in the First Treatise?
(a) The royalty's claim to rule by divine right through the sovereignty of Adam.
(b) That ordinary men can own property.
(c) That slavery is legal.
(d) Adam's right to be supreme.

10. What is used to justify royal authority in the First Treatise?
(a) The subjugation of children to the rule of the father.
(b) The need for governance.
(c) The power exercised by mothers over children.
(d) The belief that royalty are born with absolute power.

11. What does Filmer call the relationship between a man and his parents?
(a) The vested power.
(b) The inheritance of kings.
(c) Royal or fatherly authority.
(d) Painful subjugation.

12. What is Filmer's basis for the rule of princes?
(a) That they have the qualifications of good leadership.
(b) That they have power and riches.
(c) That they inherit the kingdoms of their fathers.
(d) That they inherited the right to rule as descendants of Adam.

13. From whom do monarchs derive power?
(a) Their subjects.
(b) Adam and his power of fatherhood.
(c) Their property.
(d) Their children.

14. To whom does Locke think a child owes the most?
(a) Society.
(b) God.
(c) Father.
(d) Mother.

15. Why is it important to explain inheritance in the First Treatise?
(a) To determine who populates the world.
(b) To determine who has the right to own slaves.
(c) To determine who has the right to rule.
(d) To determine who survives the Flood.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the rule of having only one king in the world depend upon?

2. What effect does Locke feel that Filmer's comparison of powers have?

3. Who questions the details of rulership?

4. According to Locke, to whom did God give the power of dominion?

5. What kind of government does Exodus imply according to Filmer?

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