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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Filmer in the First Treatise what does the bible prove?
(a) The right to assemble.
(b) The grant of government.
(c) The right to assemble.
(d) The right to bear arms.

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

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

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

5. According to the First Treatise, in whom is power vested?
(a) Adam and descendants.
(b) Locke and his followers.
(c) King James.
(d) Filmer and his followers.

6. From whom do monarchs derive power?
(a) Adam and his power of fatherhood.
(b) Their subjects.
(c) Their property.
(d) Their children.

7. What quality does Filmer determine that all rulers must possess?
(a) They must offer strong leadership.
(b) They must be gentle.
(c) They must be fair-minded.
(d) They must be descendants of Adam.

8. What kinds of goods does the first-born child inherit?
(a) Slaves only.
(b) Right to control siblings only.
(c) Property only.
(d) The right to rule and control over the entire kingdom and its possessions.

9. Who does Filmer think the heir should be?
(a) Someone wise.
(b) Someone with the God-given right to rule over men.
(c) Someone strong.
(d) Someone powerful.

10. What important question does Locke debate about Noah and his sons?
(a) Whether Noah gave the world to his favorite son.
(b) Whether Noah divided the world among his sons.
(c) Whether Noah loved his sons.
(d) Whether Noah fought with his sons.

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

12. What commandment applies to men and women according to Locke?
(a) Third Commandment.
(b) Sixth Commandment.
(c) Fifth Commandment.
(d) Second Commandment.

13. What was Cain told about his power?
(a) That it will diminish with age.
(b) That he will lose it.
(c) That he will rule over his brother Abel.
(d) That he has none.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the relationship between surviving children when a father dies, according to Filmer?

2. What does paternal authority imply?

3. Who buys his brother's birthright?

4. What right did man have with regard to other, according to Filmer?

5. What does Locke disagree with Filmer about concerning the rights of the first man in the world?

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