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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1-5, pp. 115-139.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who are the inheritors?
(a) Property owners.
(b) Adam's line and posterity.
(c) Adam's children Cain and Abel only.
(d) Eve.

2. What does Filmer claim is the relationship between men and creatures?
(a) Men consume all creatures.
(b) Men have sole ownership over all creatures.
(c) Men live in opposition to all creatures.
(d) Men are equal to all creatures.

3. What does Filmer call the relationship between a man and his parents?
(a) The vested power.
(b) Royal or fatherly authority.
(c) Painful subjugation.
(d) The inheritance of kings.

4. To support what theory does Locke employ numerous citations?
(a) The equality of power between both parents.
(b) The need for subservience in children.
(c) The divine right to rule inherited by Adam.
(d) The right to own slaves.

5. To understand political power, what is important to have?
(a) A desire to rule.
(b) A knowledge of legal literature.
(c) A state of equality.
(d) A state of perfect freedom for men.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the First Treatise, in whom is power vested?

2. What does Locke think the kind of punishment should be for a transgression less than murder?

3. What does Locke think sometimes determines who will be king?

4. What penalties can laws sometimes include?

5. Who buys his brother's birthright?

(see the answer key)

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