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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2, Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is destroyed if the government does not reflect the Sovereign Will?
(a) Body Politic.
(b) Government.
(c) Political Knowledge.
(d) Community.

2. According to the author, violence is a poor means of maintaining which of the following?
(a) A government.
(b) Respect.
(c) Social order.
(d) Revolution.

3. The author believes that force does not constitute which of the following?
(a) Power.
(b) Right.
(c) Need.
(d) Enslavement.

4. The state is supposed to enact laws that protect personal property from which of the following?
(a) Being taken by force.
(b) Being taken by law.
(c) Being taken.
(d) Being taken by others.

5. According to the author, the legislator must appeal to an authority who can bear men away without which of the following elements?
(a) Violence.
(b) Harm.
(c) Concern.
(d) Selfishness.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author, war originates from the relationship between which of the following?

2. The Sovereign Will is subject to which of the following in a constant way?

3. When men work together in the way that the author suggests, it produces what type of authority?

4. According to the author, who benefits in war?

5. The author believes that a man's hold on his personal property is which of the following when he is part of the state?

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