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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The term, inherent in anarchy, refers to which of the following?
(a) Lack of will.
(b) Self-destruction.
(c) Ordering of men by power.
(d) Lawlessness.

2. The author compares authoritarian societies to which of the following social structures?
(a) Friends.
(b) Family.
(c) Work.
(d) Military.

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

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

5. 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 the poor miserable.
(d) Keeps those in power miserable.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author, which of the following does man give up in the social contract?

2. According to the author, unless natural circumstances are taken into account by the legislator, the laws will be which of the following?

3. The will of all is a conglomeration of which of the following?

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

5. Which of the following is destroyed if the government does not reflect the Sovereign Will?

Short Essay Questions

1. On what type of standard are the authoritarian socio-political system and the family system both based?

2. Why must the legislator not have command or authority over any man?

3. What reason does the author cite as the necessary one for the social contract to be established?

4. How does the need felt by the citizens use the Sovereign Will to connect to the governed?

5. Can the general will err?

6. Why are legislators with the correct qualities important?

7. When do individuals have to surrender their individual will?

8. What happens if a state becomes too large?

9. What is one premise cited in the author's argument that imposition of an unnatural authority is contrary to human nature?

10. What does the author state will happen unless natural circumstances are taken into account by the legislator?

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