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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 is used to justify royal authority in the First Treatise?
(a) The subjugation of children to the rule of the father.
(b) The need for governance.
(c) The power exercised by mothers over children.
(d) The belief that royalty are born with absolute power.

2. From whom do monarchs derive power?
(a) Their subjects.
(b) Their property.
(c) Adam and his power of fatherhood.
(d) Their children.

3. According to Locke, to whom did God give the power of dominion?
(a) Parents.
(b) Adam and Eve.
(c) Slave owners.
(d) Royalty.

4. What is Filmer's basis for the rule of princes?
(a) That they have power and riches.
(b) That they inherit the kingdoms of their fathers.
(c) That they inherited the right to rule as descendants of Adam.
(d) That they have the qualifications of good leadership.

5. What was Cain told about his power?
(a) That it will diminish with age.
(b) That he has none.
(c) That he will rule over his brother Abel.
(d) That he will lose it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What fact does Locke believe refutes Filmer's claims?

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

3. What does Filmer's logic imply about succeeding monarchs?

4. In Genesis, when were men and other living creatures created?

5. What two titles push the theory of sovereignty, according to Locke?

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