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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Locke say man establishes his right of property?
(a) Through labor he expends.
(b) Through slavery.
(c) Through the power of the commonwealth.
(d) Through warfare.

2. What does the commonwealth give men?
(a) Rules to live by.
(b) Arbitrary power.
(c) Free will to do as they please.
(d) Absolute power.

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

4. What does Locke believe that the First Treatise proves?
(a) That Adam had authority over his children.
(b) That Adam did not have authority over his children.
(c) That Adam's authority stemmed from God.
(d) That Adam's authority came from being a father.

5. How does Locke define legislative power?
(a) The power to decide who owns what in society.
(b) How a community uses resources for the preservation and betterment of society.
(c) The power to transfer resource ownership.
(d) The power to execute law.

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

7. What was the right of succession practiced in the commonwealth?
(a) The family with royal connections dominates.
(b) The wealthiest family dominates.
(c) The most powerful family dominates.
(d) The eldest son inherits the property and right to rule.

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

9. For whom does the legislature make laws?
(a) The property owners.
(b) The servants.
(c) The children.
(d) The public good.

10. What should judges be held accountable for?
(a) Feelings of injured party.
(b) Finding methods of punishment.
(c) Putting away offenders.
(d) Decisions.

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

12. What can a subject do regardless of the type of ruler according to Locke?
(a) Take matters into his own hands.
(b) Appeal to the law.
(c) Make a stake for his own property.
(d) Be an anarchist.

13. What is the one supreme power over the commonwealth?
(a) The federative.
(b) The executive.
(c) The legislative.
(d) The political.

14. What right does Locke say any citizen has regarding crimes?
(a) The right to seek revenge.
(b) The right to fight crime.
(c) The right to create war.
(d) The right and duty to prevent crime.

15. What should have defined laws, according to Locke?
(a) Inheritance.
(b) Property ownership.
(c) Society.
(d) Marriage.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Locke believe that citizens can do if a man is unfit to be the ruler?

2. What is federative power?

3. What does Locke say does not end when the right to guardianship ends?

4. What rules should people know according to Locke?

5. What should no human sanction oppose according to Locke?

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