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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 11- 15, pp. 182 - 204.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What penalties can laws sometimes include?
(a) The loss of speech.
(b) The death penalty.
(c) The loss of a child.
(d) The loss of marriage.

2. What does Locke believe is the kind of government when the whole community is involved?
(a) A perfect democracy.
(b) An oligarchy.
(c) Anarchy.
(d) A monarchy.

3. What is the main reason men enter into communities?
(a) To buy property.
(b) To learn laws.
(c) To become rulers.
(d) To preserve property.

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

5. What should have defined laws, according to Locke?
(a) Marriage.
(b) Property ownership.
(c) Inheritance.
(d) Society.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Locke think the kind of punishment should be for a transgression less than murder?

2. What do most laws exist for?

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

4. Who settles controversies in laws?

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

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