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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Men can accomplish more if they band together and work toward which of the following?
(a) The good of the poorest.
(b) The common good.
(c) The desire of the majority.
(d) The desire of the powerful.

2. According to the author, politicians have separated the Sovereign Will into which of the following?
(a) Separate buildings.
(b) Separate votes.
(c) Separate jurisdictions.
(d) Separate wills.

3. The author suggests that which of the following types of law is the foundation for all other laws?
(a) Fourth.
(b) First.
(c) Third.
(d) Second.

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

5. What type of community does the author envision in a seaside state?
(a) Shipping community.
(b) Agricultural community.
(c) Industrial community.
(d) Populous community.

6. According to the author, the ideal legislator is objective, intelligent, and which of the following?
(a) Delicate.
(b) Creative.
(c) Compassionate.
(d) Understanding.

7. The private will is inclined to which of the following?
(a) Charity.
(b) Semantics.
(c) Partiality.
(d) Personalities.

8. The author believes that the government does not have the right to lay greater responsibility on one person than another because the government then becomes which of the following?
(a) Specific.
(b) Personal.
(c) Temporary.
(d) General.

9. Which of the following does the author suggest to be the best time for a state to be established?
(a) At the time that violence comes to an end.
(b) During a time of relative peace.
(c) In the middle of prosperity.
(d) At the beginning of war.

10. The author believes that change is a fundamental aspect of which of the following, and cannot be stopped?
(a) States.
(b) Nature.
(c) Law.
(d) Science.

11. The first type of laws govern the interaction between the state and which of the following?
(a) The community.
(b) The people.
(c) The world.
(d) The Sovereign.

12. The author states that a social contract in a bad government does which of the following?
(a) Keeps everyone miserable.
(b) Keeps the middle-class miserable.
(c) Keeps those in power miserable.
(d) Keeps the poor miserable.

13. Who does the author cite as an example of someone who attempted good reform, but did not know his people well enough to succeed?
(a) Nicholas the Great.
(b) Peter the Great.
(c) Catherine the Great.
(d) Ivan the Great.

14. According to the author, which of the following does man gain in the social contract?
(a) Political liberty.
(b) Civil liberty.
(c) Spiritual liberty.
(d) Social liberty.

15. Where does the author believe government to have the best and truest form of ultimate power?
(a) With the military.
(b) In a body of men.
(c) With the people.
(d) In one man.

Short Answer Questions

1. When an individual's will is in conflict with the will of the whole, what must the individual do?

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

3. The term, inherent in anarchy, refers to which of the following?

4. By being part of the social contract, man does which of the following?

5. When a state is too small, the people's spirit tends to become which of the following?

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