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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, who benefits in war?
(a) The soldiers.
(b) The rulers.
(c) No one.
(d) The rich individuals.

2. According to the author, the state does not have a right to take the life of an individual who threatens which of the following?
(a) Ideas and technology.
(b) Property.
(c) National defense.
(d) Other individuals.

3. The author states that there will be three wills operating within the Magistrate. Which of the following does the author think will naturally be the strongest?
(a) Individual will.
(b) Will of the people.
(c) Sovereign Will.
(d) Community will.

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

5. The term, magistrate, is used interchangeably with which of the following titles?
(a) President.
(b) Prince.
(c) Leader.
(d) King.

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

7. When the author writes of a sovereign within the social contract, he refers to which of the following?
(a) The outward will of the group.
(b) The person in leadership of the group.
(c) The single ruler.
(d) The collective authority.

8. The will of all is a conglomeration of which of the following?
(a) Private companies.
(b) Private needs.
(c) Private charities.
(d) Private interests.

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

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

11. According to the author, people who live under a tyrant or despot, yet find their lives peaceful, are experiencing which of the following types of slavery?
(a) Thoughtful.
(b) Spiritual.
(c) Political.
(d) Social.

12. The author states that the Magistrate receives power to lead the government from which of the following?
(a) The constitution.
(b) God.
(c) Natural law.
(d) The people.

13. The author states that slavery is established and perpetuated by which of the following?
(a) Taxes.
(b) War.
(c) Force.
(d) A majority.

14. According to the author, no man has any natural authority over which of the following?
(a) His state.
(b) His family.
(c) His beliefs.
(d) His fellows.

15. 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) General.
(b) Personal.
(c) Temporary.
(d) Specific.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author believes that the more bureaucracy that there is, the more that the government will be dominated by which type of will?

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

3. The author states that a social contract in a bad government does which of the following?

4. According to the author, the larger that a state is, the less influence which of the following will have?

5. According to the author, which of the following does a legislator do?

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