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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11, pp. 73-112.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What right does Locke believe all men have?
(a) The right to buy property.
(b) The right to fight.
(c) The right to have slaves.
(d) The right of inheritance.

2. What does Locke say he cannot find proof for in the First Treatise?
(a) That ordinary men can own property.
(b) That slavery is legal.
(c) Adam's right to be supreme.
(d) The royalty's claim to rule by divine right through the sovereignty of Adam.

3. What distinction does Locke make regarding gender and power?
(a) Locke says gender inequalities prevent power equality.
(b) Locke says that both Adam and Eve have equal power.
(c) Locke says Adam has control over his wife Eve.
(d) Locke says power lies in the hands of the mother.

4. What commandment applies to men and women according to Locke?
(a) Second Commandment.
(b) Sixth Commandment.
(c) Third Commandment.
(d) Fifth Commandment.

5. What important argument does Locke refute in the First Treatise?
(a) That people must live peacefully together.
(b) That governments can have slaves.
(c) That Adam had the right to private dominion and absolute power over other men.
(d) That men and women are equal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Filmer propose is the cause for men being denied freedom?

2. What relationship of power does Locke think is hard to understand?

3. What belief, according to Locke, prevents the right to natural freedom?

4. What is the relationship between surviving children when a father dies, according to Filmer?

5. What two things does Filmore say are necessary for absolute monarchy to work?

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