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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6-10, pp. 37-73.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What relationship of power does Locke think is hard to understand?
(a) Men and women.
(b) Fatherhood where children are the property of the father.
(c) Slaves and slave owners.
(d) Kings and queens.

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

3. What two powers are considered identical by Filmer?
(a) The right to own a slave and the right to fight.
(b) The right to own property and the right to marry someone of your own choice.
(c) The power of marriage and the power of childbirth.
(d) The power of the fathers and the power of kings.

4. According to the First Treatise, in whom is power vested?
(a) Adam and descendants.
(b) Filmer and his followers.
(c) Locke and his followers.
(d) King James.

5. Who questions the details of rulership?
(a) Locke.
(b) King James.
(c) Adam.
(d) Filmer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What commandment applies to men and women according to Locke?

2. To support what theory does Locke employ numerous citations?

3. What are the only two ways that kings can come to power, according to Filmer?

4. What rights does Locke believe that Adam's heir possesses in relation to these creatures?

5. What distinction does Locke make regarding gender and power?

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