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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the author, every human being lives in which of the following?
(a) Need.
(b) Skin.
(c) Houses.
(d) Chains.

2. The author believes that a human's most basic instinct is the will to do which of the following?
(a) Rule.
(b) Procreate.
(c) Survive.
(d) Have power.

3. The author states that every free act must have two causes; moral and which of the following?
(a) Physical.
(b) Spiritual.
(c) Psychological.
(d) Legal.

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

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

6. The Sovereign Will is subject to which of the following in a constant way?
(a) Debates.
(b) Battering.
(c) Fluctuations.
(d) Pressures.

7. The author believes that all power comes from which of the following?
(a) God.
(b) Violence.
(c) Human nature.
(d) Force.

8. According to the author, unless natural circumstances are taken into account by the legislator, the laws will be which of the following?
(a) Weak.
(b) Useless.
(c) Hard to follow.
(d) Broken.

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

10. Chapter 12 of Book 2 might best be described as which of the following types of chapter?
(a) Closing.
(b) Transition.
(c) Opening.
(d) Climactic.

11. According to the author, which of the following does a legislator do?
(a) Interprets laws.
(b) Makes laws.
(c) Enacts laws.
(d) Repeals laws.

12. By which of the following terms does the author state that the power of deciding for the whole of the body can only be established?
(a) Totality.
(b) Proper ordering.
(c) Veiled proceedings.
(d) Convention.

13. The author states that moral equality must be substituted for which of the following in a social contract?
(a) Property inequality.
(b) Possessor inequality.
(c) Physical inequality.
(d) Social inequality.

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

15. If the natural circumstances are not taken into account by the legislator, what type of status will the state be in?
(a) Anarchy.
(b) War-like.
(c) Peaceful.
(d) Agitation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is the name that the author gives to a state that is governed by enlightened laws solely for the public interest?

2. When the author writes of a sovereign within the social contract, he refers to which of the following?

3. Which of the following types of law is the third type of law that governs a specific type of relationship within a state?

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

5. The author believes that when citizens become enlightened they have to seize which of the following for themselves?

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