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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. According to the author, which of the following contributes toward obedience having less value?
(a) External forces.
(b) Respect.
(c) Desire.
(d) Fear.

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

3. The author believes that when citizens become enlightened they have to seize which of the following for themselves?
(a) Reason.
(b) Freedom.
(c) Responsibility.
(d) Power.

4. The author believes he is a citizen of which of the following?
(a) Monarchical state.
(b) Free state.
(c) Republican state.
(d) Tyrannical state.

5. The general will is always which of the following?
(a) Angry.
(b) Charitable.
(c) Manipulated.
(d) Right.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is another phrase that the author uses for "empowering of the Sovereign Will"?

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

3. 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?

4. According to the author, every human being lives in which of the following?

5. According to the author, the state does not have a right to take the life of an individual who threatens which of the following?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the author's definition of law?

3. What is the most freeing way of life for an individual?

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

5. How does the author suggest that power for deciding who has authority must be established?

6. According to the author, what type of geography makes a state unstable?

7. How is the body politic destroyed?

8. What do the second and third types of laws presented in Book 2, Chapter 12, have in common?

9. What are the three levels of will that a magistrate has operating within themselves?

10. What does man lose and gain by the social contract?

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