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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Locke contest about Cain's rights?
(a) Locke believes that Cain's rights are limited because he is not as intelligent as his brother.
(b) Locke feels that Cain's rights are impermanent.
(c) Locke does not believe that Cain has dominion over Abel because he is older.
(d) Locke contests that Cain is physically stronger than his brother.

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

3. What effect does Locke feel that Filmer's comparison of powers have?
(a) Confuses readers.
(b) Creates zealots.
(c) Flatters the ambitions of monarchs.
(d) Evokes anger.

4. To whom does Locke think a child owes the most?
(a) Mother.
(b) God.
(c) Father.
(d) Society.

5. What order did the first man in the world receive from God?
(a) To create a house.
(b) To multiply and populate the world.
(c) To buy property.
(d) To create a house.

6. Which book in the bible discusses the creation of animals?
(a) Proverbs.
(b) Genesis.
(c) Deuteronomy.
(d) Psalms.

7. What is Locke's conclusion pertaining to the knowledge contained in the biblical scripture?
(a) That slavery was acceptable.
(b) That God said Eve was subservient to Adam's will.
(c) That it was not a grant from God to have power of all men.
(d) That God decreed that Adam be king.

8. What fact does Locke believe refutes Filmer's claims?
(a) The sovereignty shared between parents.
(b) The birth of Adam.
(c) The property owner's rights.
(d) The slave owner's rights.

9. Who is described by Filmer as possibly having absolute power as a monarch?
(a) Eve.
(b) Adam.
(c) A property owner.
(d) King James.

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

11. What belief does Locke not challenge in the First Treatise?
(a) That slaves make war upon their government.
(b) That tyranny is acceptable.
(c) That Adam was created by God.
(d) That the thrones of princes come by divine right.

12. What is the basis of sovereignty of monarchs in the First Treatise?
(a) That the power of Adam is conveyed to succeeding generations.
(b) That citizens accept the theory.
(c) That no one opposes monarchs.
(d) That slaves do not rebel.

13. Who has joint dominion over the children in Locke's opinion?
(a) Father and mother.
(b) Slaves and slave owners.
(c) The king and queen.
(d) King James and his wife.

14. What two titles push the theory of sovereignty, according to Locke?
(a) Titles of slave and property ownership.
(b) Titles of judiciary and executive control.
(c) Titles of fatherhood and property.
(d) Titles of sisterhood and property.

15. What right does Locke believe all men have?
(a) The right to fight.
(b) The right of inheritance.
(c) The right to have slaves.
(d) The right to buy property.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Locke say he cannot find proof for in the First Treatise?

2. What two things does Locke feel are conflated?

3. What is the only thing that Locke can find in the scriptures pertaining to power and God?

4. In what country does Locke discuss the occurrence of cannibalism?

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

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