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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Locke say is protected by law and cannot be taken away by a ruler?
(a) Property.
(b) Freedom to fight.
(c) Freedom to marry.
(d) Freedom to travel.

2. What power does Locke argue that a man can only be subject to by choice?
(a) Political.
(b) Spiritual.
(c) Physical.
(d) Mental.

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

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

5. How does Locke say man establishes his right of property?
(a) Through warfare.
(b) Through slavery.
(c) Through labor he expends.
(d) Through the power of the commonwealth.

6. What happens in a state of liberty?
(a) The loudest dominates.
(b) Power and jurisdiction are reciprocal.
(c) Nature takes over.
(d) Anarchy begins.

7. What is federative power?
(a) The government has absolute power.
(b) The government acts as one power for the security of society.
(c) The government can overthrow state decisions.
(d) The government controls from Washington D.C.

8. What was the rule of inheritance among families in a commonwealth?
(a) The oldest child inherits.
(b) The eldest son inherits.
(c) The father decides who inherits.
(d) The royal family decides which families inherit what properties.

9. What powers does Locke advocate being delegated and managed in society for a successful society?
(a) Executive and material.
(b) Legislative and judiciary.
(c) Political and paternal.
(d) Executive and federative.

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

11. What should judges be held accountable for?
(a) Putting away offenders.
(b) Feelings of injured party.
(c) Finding methods of punishment.
(d) Decisions.

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

13. For whom does the legislature make laws?
(a) The servants.
(b) The children.
(c) The property owners.
(d) The public good.

14. How does Locke believe that natural freedom and the rule of parents fit together?
(a) Natural freedom is stolen from children by their parents.
(b) Natural freedom opposes all parental rule.
(c) Children have to be old enough to understand the law of reason and are free until this age.
(d) Natural freedom is given to children by parents.

15. What two government powers does Locke argue should remain separate?
(a) The power to bear arms and the power to follow one's own faith.
(b) Judicial power and the power of property ownership.
(c) The power of self-governance and the power to assemble peacefully.
(d) Legislative power and executive power.

Short Answer Questions

1. What relationship is necessary to nurture the young?

2. What does political power directly affect?

3. Which two parties did not initially seek to oppress each other in the commonwealth?

4. What power gives the right to make laws?

5. What does political power involve?

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