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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6 - 10, pp. 140 - 181.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Filmer's logic imply about succeeding monarchs?
(a) They win the right to rule through a debate.
(b) They must prove their right to rule through one-on-one combat.
(c) They are much weaker than the first monarch.
(d) They get their rights to rule from the first monarch.

2. How does Locke differ in his perception of Eve as compared to Filmer?
(a) Locke argues that Eve was a warrior.
(b) Locke believes that Eve was powerless.
(c) Locke does not believe that Eve had to be subjected to the power of Adam.
(d) Locke believes that Eve controlled all the power in her relationship with Adam.

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

4. What are the only two ways that kings can come to power, according to Filmer?
(a) Through property ownership.
(b) Through the vote of the people.
(c) By being the heirs of fathers of people or the heirs of usurpers of power.
(d) Through marriage and winning wars.

5. What right did man have with regard to other, according to Filmer?
(a) The right to consume them for food.
(b) To use them as necessary.
(c) No rights.
(d) The right to share land with them.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the only party who has the right to seek reparations?

2. According to Locke, what right do men have regarding murderers?

3. What biblical book connects monarchy with the commandment to honor thy father?

4. What kind of government does Exodus imply according to Filmer?

5. What does Locke say does not end when the right to guardianship ends?

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