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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do laws exist for?
(a) To prevent fighting.
(b) To preserve land.
(c) The good of society.
(d) To stop war.

2. What right does Locke say any citizen has regarding crimes?
(a) The right to seek revenge.
(b) The right to fight crime.
(c) The right to create war.
(d) The right and duty to prevent crime.

3. What happens when people choose the form of government they want?
(a) Their natural freedom is curtailed.
(b) They give up their rights to anarchy.
(c) The absolute monarch takes over.
(d) They authorize certain people to make laws for them.

4. What does Locke name the law to govern Adam and his posterity?
(a) The law of primogeniture.
(b) The law of reason.
(c) The law of equality.
(d) The law of property ownership.

5. What is the one supreme power over the commonwealth?
(a) The legislative.
(b) The federative.
(c) The executive.
(d) The political.

6. What two powers are vastly different according to Locke?
(a) Maternal power and slave owner power.
(b) Political power and maternal power.
(c) Political power and paternal power.
(d) Paternal power and landowner power.

7. What does Locke believe that taxes need in order to be passed?
(a) The consent of the people.
(b) A majority vote in the legislature.
(c) The approval of the monarch.
(d) Money.

8. Why is political power important?
(a) For the right to share your opinion.
(b) For the making of laws to govern society.
(c) For the right to get married.
(d) For the right to own slaves.

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

10. What does man give up by joining a community?
(a) Some of his natural liberty.
(b) Physical power.
(c) Mental power.
(d) Spiritual power.

11. Who is the only party who has the right to seek reparations?
(a) The child.
(b) The judge.
(c) The wife.
(d) The injured individual.

12. What relationship is necessary to nurture the young?
(a) Child's obedience to the father.
(b) Political alliance between king and queen.
(c) Conjugal relationship between husband and wife.
(d) Political power of the father.

13. How do people pay for the benefit of the government's protection?
(a) Taxation.
(b) Voting.
(c) By giving up some rights.
(d) By refusing to fight.

14. 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.

15. What does Locke argue the power should not be used for?
(a) To destroy or enslave the members of society.
(b) To own property.
(c) To destroy a neighbor's property.
(d) To wage war.

Short Answer Questions

1. When a person violates the state of liberty, what does Locke say must ensue?

2. For whom does the legislature make laws?

3. What powers does Locke advocate being delegated and managed in society for a successful society?

4. What should have defined laws, according to Locke?

5. What does Locke argue about the inheritance of power and the right to rule?

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