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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 Locke think sometimes determines who will be king?
(a) The size of the army and its success.
(b) A person's intelligence.
(c) Luck.
(d) Wealth.

2. What does the commonwealth give men?
(a) Rules to live by.
(b) Arbitrary power.
(c) Free will to do as they please.
(d) Absolute power.

3. By avoiding the abuse of power, what happens in society?
(a) Property was divided.
(b) People willingly submitted to the rule of another.
(c) A government was overthrown.
(d) People were free to marry.

4. What does Locke say cannot be inferred from the biblical commandments?
(a) Right to own slaves.
(b) Right to own property.
(c) Absolute obedience to the king.
(d) Free will.

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. What does the rule of having only one king in the world depend upon?

2. Why is it important to explain inheritance in the First Treatise?

3. What rights does Filmer believe should be given to the descendants of the heir?

4. What was the right of succession practiced in the commonwealth?

5. To whom does Locke determine that parental power belongs?

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