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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Locke believe that people should change the legislature?
(a) When the legislature does something unpopular.
(b) When the legislature is tyrannical.
(c) When the legislature is difficult.
(d) When the legislature is not organized.

2. What does Locke say does not end when the right to guardianship ends?
(a) Child's duty to learn.
(b) Parent's duty to share property with child.
(c) Child's duty to respect parents.
(d) Parent's duty to accept child.

3. What does Locke argue about the inheritance of power and the right to rule?
(a) That it comes only to Noah's descendants.
(b) That it comes only to Adam's descendants.
(c) That it is not predetermined by birthright.
(d) That it belongs to the firstborn child.

4. What law determines when the guardianship ends?
(a) The municipal law of the country.
(b) The law of primogeniture.
(c) The law of property ownership.
(d) The law of self-governance.

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

6. How does Locke define "parental power"?
(a) Power to make slaves of children.
(b) Power over the fate of children.
(c) Power to have children.
(d) Power to give away children.

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

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

9. What does Locke believe that citizens can do if a man is unfit to be the ruler?
(a) Replace the ruler.
(b) Wage war.
(c) Remove the ruler.
(d) Destroy the kingdom.

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

11. What does Locke argue should be expected of the ruler?
(a) To be compassionate.
(b) To follow the laws and not make arbitrary decisions.
(c) To rule only for four years.
(d) To be kind and understanding.

12. What do most laws exist for?
(a) To distribute property.
(b) To regulate marriage.
(c) To relinquish slave owner rights.
(d) To regulate and preserve property.

13. What does Locke define political power as?
(a) The power of a master over a slave.
(b) The power of a husband over a wife.
(c) The power of a father over a child.
(d) The power that a magistrate has over a subject.

14. What happens when people choose the form of government they want?
(a) Their natural freedom is curtailed.
(b) The absolute monarch takes over.
(c) They authorize certain people to make laws for them.
(d) They give up their rights to anarchy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is federative power?

2. What does Locke say should not be expected of an injured party?

3. What does Locke believe that the First Treatise proves?

4. What joint power does Locke say is represented by the community?

5. Who is the only party who has the right to seek reparations?

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