View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What rights does Locke believe that Adam's heir possesses in relation to these creatures?
(a) No rights.
(b) The same as other men.
(c) More rights than other men.
(d) All rights.

3. How could the premise of divine rights be destroyed?
(a) If power is not handed down from son to son.
(b) If God does not exist.
(c) If paternal authority only came from Adam.
(d) If Noah divided the world among his sons.

4. What issues arise with Noah?
(a) Power and inheritance.
(b) End of the world.
(c) Redemption.
(d) Animal rights.

5. What does the basis of government depend upon according to Locke?
(a) The prevention of cruelty.
(b) The origin of property.
(c) The need for order.
(d) The sanctity of marriage.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In the First Treatise, whose heir is in question?

3. What happens if the world has more than one king?

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

5. To whom does Locke believe the duty of honor and obedience is due?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 296 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample